“The important thing is to get out there and do stuff. Instead of waiting to be taught, go out and learn.”
“Every time a friend with kids in school tells me textbooks are too generic, I think back to that moment. ‘Who writes these things?’ people ask me. I have to tell them, without a hint of irony, ‘No one.’ It’s symptomatic of the whole muddled mess that is the $4.3 billion textbook business.”
“So, what I’ve given thus far is yet another convoluted explanation of mathematical induction. The real point here is that this stuff is weird and takes some real thinking to get used to, and even then you don’t feel like you are completely comfortable with your understanding until you’ve spent some time with it.”
“The NFL is like a big respect black hole, in which all respect is sucked into a negative zone and therefore everyone feels disrespected.”
“There are several problems. The first is the fact that, technically, we don’t know the candidates. We know the principal heads of the lists but we don’t know who exactly will be running. It really is confusing. They aren’t making the lists public because they are afraid the candidates will be assassinated.”