I have never done anything "useful." No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, any difference to the amenity of the world... The case for my life, then, is this: that I have added something to my knowledge, and have helped others to add more; and that these somethings have a value which differs in degree only, not in kind, from that of the creations of the great mathematicians.
-G.H. Hardy (1877-1947), 1940
(I'm going to have to put that on the back of my business cards)
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