It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.
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In an interview in Artforum, Nov. 83Peter Greenaway
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
Larry Wall
There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer.
Peter F. Drucker
To say that prediction is the purpose of a scientific theory is to confuse means with ends. It is like saying that the purpose of a spaceship is to burn fuel. ... Passing experimental tests is only one of many things a theory has to do to achieve the real purpose of science, which is to explain the world. (Ch. 1)
David Deutsch
In the university of God, however brilliant you may be, you will not be given double promotion. You must take every course, because each course serves a purpose.
T. B. Joshua
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
Cesare Pavese
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