"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

by Richard P. Feynman

I was on vacation in Santa Barbara with a friend. Learning is one of my favorite ways to relax,

Said by Bill Gates

Radio circuits were much easier to understand in those days because everything was out in the open. After you took the set apart (it was a big problem to find the right screws), you could see this was a resistor, that’s a condenser, here’s a this, there’s a that; they were all labeled.

I learned there that innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world.

After a lot of investigation, I finally figured out that the students had memorized everything, but they didn’t know what anything meant.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.