When I have a headache, I take an Advil and follow the instructions on the bottle:
"KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN"
(based on Kauffman, G. and Blakeley M. eds. 1980. Pulling Our Own Strings. Page 51)
A sufficiently advanced society has synthesized all human knowledge
in pill form. So an undergraduate goes to the drug store and asks the pharmacist if he has history, economics, and literature. The pharmacist disappears into the back. When he returns, he has three little boxes and says
"Here, take this purple one for all of human history—from the origins all...
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