The Judge
“If a scientist can’t explain to an eight-year-old boy what he’s doing, he’s a charlatan.”
(from Kurt Vonnegut)
On the eve of the onset of the millennium, around the world, a pillar of hot controversy stood: With the battle of the curants and the onset of the two thousand year comes the third millennium or it comes only in a year, in a new two thousand first? Disputed everywhere. Crying and handwriting. We also talked while sitting in our office. The arguments were different, one lady even began to draw in a notebook 2000 plusks to prove some of her position. The Poor. When our arguments ended and we began to move on to personalities, like musicians in the movie "Welcome guys", one operator looked at us in the editorial and said:
- Here in the neighboring studio, came an academic, to film in some smart
The program. Let him be our judge. Give him
Let’s try and ask who of us is right. Whatever he tells us,
We will all accept his response and calm down.
It was the mother of mankind: 100 years old. A member of all the academies of the world. Physicist, mathematician, etc. of the first magnitude.
He lived in America for forty years, so he spoke Russian with an American accent.
We caught him and asked. Exactly a second later, this hundred-year-old old man smiled and said:
Imagine you’re in your company, you’re drinking.
The Vodka Nature. You have three bottles of vodka. Each box contains 10 bottles.
Now answer your own question: Does the twenty-first bottle of vodka belong to the second box or the third?
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I personally find it hard to imagine such a fool who could not be taught by such a teacher.