“They were spouting all sorts of philosophical verbiage, academic style philosophical verbiage . . . which it was clear that Feynman had no patience with and he took them apart. It was cruel. I don’t know how to describe what he did to them. With simple words, he took a pin and punctured their balloon in a way that you might call ugly, but the saving grace is that they were totally enchanted by him,” Susskind told me.
