The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf]

"The mere fact that they bring satisfaction to an individual soul bent upon its own purification and elevation is all the justification that they need."

This is by the founder about IAS (aka (Turing's) [*Bazaar-]Cathedral) founding between war & depression, while it was still at 20 Nassau St

Further Quaker background by Freeman Dyson's son George who wrote that book having grown up there

https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2009/george-dyson-tavern-and-meeti...

*IAS was an open-maxxed Bell Labs

https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/700.php

>Dyson misses the point somewhat about virtual machines and cloud computing, which are much more about relocatable and rescalable computing — rather than having to house and maintain computers to handle the peak computational load, we can run software remotely as a service, and purchase resources on an as-needed basis; the providers of these services can reroute and reallocate resources in real-time without any intervention by or impact on their customers. There’s something here in Dyson’s statement alluding to parallel processing...

Paradoxes for outwitting the uni-context..