I've been thinking Hobbes" "On a weekend?" "Well, it wasn't on purpose
Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.
I got the craziest crash course in rock n' roll that I could have ever dreamed of.
Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for.
Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
I was in a movie for five minutes where I play tennis and I was given five tennis lessons for free. I never had a tennis lesson. I was like, that's awesome! When else would I have taken up tennis?
You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.
It's very rare that I ever go and research a particular subject. Mostly I do serendipitous research, I read stuff, things spinning out of the page.
