Men Under Stress Are Fools,

Sneaking Up On It Sometimes Helps: I've Found I Can Be Very Productive For An Hour Before Dinner, Because There Obviously Isn't Enough Time To Really Do Anything, So I Can Tell Myself I'm Just Screwing Around.

We Are All Assumed, These Days, To Reside At One Extreme Of The Opinion Spectrum, Or Another. We Are Pro-abortion Or Anti-abortion. We Are Free Traders Or Protectionists. We Are Pro-private Sector Or Pro-government. We Are Feminists Or Chauvinists. But In The Real World, Few Of Us Hold These Extreme Views. There Is Instead A Spectrum Of Opinion.

The Experience Of Climbing Kilimanjaro Affected Me So Powerfully That, For A Long Time Afterward, If I Caught Myself Saying, "i'm Not A Person Who Likes To Do That Activity, Eat That Food, Listen To That Music," I Would Automatically Go Out And Do What I Imagined I Didn't Like. Generally I Found I Was Wrong About Myself - I Liked What I Thought I Wouldn't Like. And Even If I Didn't Like The Particular Experience, I Learned I Liked Having New Experiences.

...scientific Power Is Like Inherited Wealth: Attained Without Discipline. You Read What Others Have Done, And You Take The Next Step. You Can Do It Very Young...there Is No Mastery, Old Scientists Are Ignored. There Is No Humility Before Nature...its A Form Of Inherited Wealth. And You Know What Assholes Congenitally Rich People Are.

The Academic World Was Marching Toward Ever More Specialized Knowledge, Expressed In Ever More Dense Jargon.