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Humor, since it depends on so many emotional, social, and intellectual facets of human beings, is particularly immune to computer simulation.

John Allen Paulos

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John Allen Paulos (born July 4, 1945) is an American professor of mathematics at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is a prominent figure as a writer and speaker on mathematics and the importance of mathematical literacy. Paulos writes about many subjects, especially of the dangers of mathematical innumeracy; that is, the layperson's misconceptions about numbers, probability, and logic.

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Humor, since it depends on so many emotional, social, and intellectual facets of human beings, is particularly immune to computer simulation. - John Allen Paulos

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