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My graduate adviser use to say, if you ask "how do you add 1+1?" a student with a bachelor's degree answers "2". A person with a master's degree will write a 10 line C program to calculate it, then tell you "2". A person with a PhD just says "I don't know, but I can tell you where to find the answer."


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