See this great post in Michael Trick’s OR Blog on a recent article in the Economist magazine titled “Business by numbers”.
Among other things, this is how the Economist article begins:
Algorithms sound scary, of interest only to dome-headed mathematicians.
Well, I have no idea what “dome-headed” means, but Google tells me that dome-headed creatures can be scary. Now, domed-head mathematicians… hmm, maybe it has to do with banging the head to the wall? 
