Systematic Thinkers Gifts

When Engineers Crack.

"Marshall, somewhere out there, just waiting for us, is a loophole in the system."

'I pledge allegiance to the atom, and to the periodic table on which it stands, many particles indivisible, with orbitals and electrons for all.'

"You're going to have to submit to peer review eventually, Bradshaw!"

"It looks like a perfectly balanced system to me."

Innovation & Calculation

'Yeah, I don't have trouble remembering my times tables, but I stink at algebra...'

"We only got up to three 'whys' and a 'what the hell'."

'Carl Jung loses it...' 'don't tell me I made a Freudian slip - it's a Jungian slip!'

'A geneticist laid bare my genetic blueprint, and I feel violated.'

A Padlock and a Pet Key.

"My System 1 tells me she's articulate, capable, shrewd. My System 2 says BIMBO."

"I can Botox it, but I don’t want to freeze up my sixth chakra."

'Do I believe in evolution? - Well, I suppose we should get it over with.'

"The central digital platform is temporarily renamed Project Schrödinger’s Cat. Until it is accessed on the 24th February it both is and is not a working system."

Can't you anarchists do anything within the system?

"It was Socrates, wasn't it, who said, 'The unexamined life is not worth living'?"

'So, how should we play this - capitalism or socialism?'

'...working for that Professor Schr?dinger didn't help.'

"Until you're top management, Warrick, I strongly suggest you stay within the lines."

Dept. of Mathematics and Frustration.

Academic Affairs: The Chair of Philosophy Corners the Chair of the Sciences

"Archaeologists discovered several enormous ancient cities buried under the jungles of Cambodia. That means the Khmer civilization was the largest empire on Earth from the 9th to the 12th centuries. That changes everything about our conception of the Middle Ages. What was your conception of the Middle Ages? Well... it was... well, knights, maidens, dragons... mostly dragons. And elves."

"I don't look at it as right and wrong, I look at it as two different strategies with two different outcomes."

"Actually, that old axiom was based on faulty mathematics! I discovered that when you correct this ration, two wrongs DO make a right!"

"The new system is 100% accurate as long as the client is called Colin and lives in Swindon."

"I wish that life was as logical as Algebra."

"Discussing research funding with ministers can be a little fraught..."

A man offers a woman a piece of himself.

Upside down question mark hanging from fishing line.

Freedom Puppet

"Of course, Perkins likes to think he can make it to the top outside the corporate structure."

"Actually, I'm tired of the man trying to shape our minds so they fit into some pre-arranged societal widget."

"Bear in mind, George, that even an experimental physicist must at times be reasonable."