Prof Felipe Gusmao"The tree on the mountain height is its own enemy... The cinnamon tree is edible: so it is cut down! The lacquer tree is profitable: they maim it. Every man knows how useful it is to be useful. No one seems to know how useful it is to be useless."
cognitively accessible math@fgusmao I have always maintained that "the best defense is not to be worth fighting" either because you're that formidable or... the reward just isn't perceived as worthy.