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MurkyCress521 t1_jeeqq76 wrote

Reply to comment by josenight in Saw this and immediately thought of r/mk by plainpaperplane

Paul Erdős for one. "A mathematician is a machine for turning amphetamines into theorems"

Productive users arent taking 200mg hits of crystal and not sleeping for 3 days, but that isn't what most meth amphetamine use looks like.

https://slate.com/culture/2013/04/auden-sartre-graham-greene-ayn-rand-they-loved-amphetamines.html

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_supert_ t1_jegn4zi wrote

Uh... wasn't that caffeine?

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InfanticideAquifer t1_jegp75t wrote

He said it about "coffee", but he was using amphetamines.

The original "coffee" is much better since there's the niche math joke "A cotheorem is a machine for turning comathematicians into ffee". "Amphetamines" doesn't start with "co", so the joke fails, disappointing the small number of people who would otherwise have enjoyed it.

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