Jubal turned to Mahmoud. “Don’t worry that I might invite Mike to suicide. I grok that he doesn’t grok joking.” Jubal blinked. “But I don’t grok ‘grok.’ Stinky, you speak Martian.” “A little.” “You speak it fluently, I heard you. Do you grok ‘grok’?” Mahmoud looked thoughtful. “No. ‘Grok’ is the most important word in the language—and I expect to spend years trying to understand it. But I don’t expect to be successful. You need to think in Martian to grok the word ‘grok.’ Perhaps you have noticed that Mike takes a veering approach to some ideas?” “Have I! My throbbing head!” “Mine, too.”
Until reading this book, I wasn’t aware that it was the origin of the term “grok”.
