John Preskill

I was a stay-at-home dad, and a lot of Feynman's philosophy came out with our kids.

You know, just one little saying, which I kept thinking of, is don't take advantage of your position.

So you never say, because I said so.

It's better to have that philosophy of ignorance.

Like, oh, yeah, that's an interesting question.

I don't know the answer to that.

Let's go find out.

There are some things that a computer does much better than a human, and you'd better remember that if you're trying to compare machines to humans.

I got a call from the LA Times wondering if he was near death.

And I said, well, he's for the moment doing pretty well, but have you written up his obituary already?

And they said, yes.

And I said, oh, wow.

Would you mind sending it?

Could I show it to the chief?

And the guy said, okay, but I'm not changing a word of it.

And so Feynman got the obituary from the LA Times.

He was able to read his own obituary.

You can find it online.

And in the first paragraph or second paragraph, he mentioned he had this reputation for skirt chasing or some kind of description of that.

And Feynman shook his head and was...