Cast in granite

Imagine that you needed something. How will you act? You will take food in the refrigerator, store, dining room, forest; Beloved woman - at the phone (having agreed on a meeting); A dear boss - you don’t have to take him, he will take it himself. Everything else, except the boss and salaries that come themselves (but the second - less often), must be taken at work. There is a method for the branch. It consists in the fact that a certain paper is written (more precisely, the form is filled), called the “requirement”. In n copies. Then M signatures gather on them. Then it goes to the warehouse and it turns out. N is usually equal to three, and with M the situation is more complicated. For an installation worth a million, it is necessary to collect fewer signatures than on an island or soldering iron, which cost 6 (six) orders less. It is clear why: the soldering iron or even moren the isolet can be “condemned”. So, in the “requirement” there was a count - why is the written out. Installation or island. An employee of the Istok Research Institute (Fryazino), the head of my diploma and co -author in a number of articles A. B. Kiselev taught me a magical formulation, which I then used for many years - and there were no failures to me. If a monument to Soviet science is ever erected, I will offer to erect a phallic symbol of polished black marble 70 m high and 1 m per 1 m in the cross section and carve on it the phrase: “For planned work”.

Leonid Ashkinazi ,
cand . physical .- Mat . sciences