"Comedy is tragedy plus time".

That quote seems to have multiple origins, though I remember it from Portal, an unlikely source.

Time is also money, and it is claimed to be the root (square or cube?) of all evil. We’re halfway to a mathematical proof of some sort.

The OG source says that love of money is the root of all evil.

I don't know what's the correct way of extracting the love operator from under the square root.

Love of money would be parameterized by the lover, without loss of generality we can call it L_p($). This would be equal to the sqrt(Evil), so L_p($)^2 is Evil.

I don't know if it is a differential equation or a simple relation. Does having more money (or less love) have a linear or non-linear relationship with its codomain (in terms of the number of p)?