[fragmede]

What is the expected value, of some dude at university spinning dinner plates in the cafeteria? What a silly pointless thing to do! Of course, if you're physics Professor Feynman, you get a Nobel out of it, so do the silly pointless things after all!

[godelski]

If the bongo man taught me anything it's that you should do something for the pursuit itself. The utility can always be found later. But chasing utility first only limits your imagination