John Preskill
speaker
321 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 29 May
John Preskill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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...
Pretty sad that that would be something mentioned so soon because I think he kind of played it up just to look like, you know, scientists aren't all nerds and, you know, can't get anywhere or whatever.
I think there was a lot of sort of image making and then he realized it kind of went too far, but he couldn't change it because the L.A.
Times guy said, my condition is I'm not changing a word.
You know, there was something on a blackboard right after he died.
They preserved the blackboard for a while, took pictures, and it said, what I cannot create, I do not understand.
He liked to construct things from the ground up.
That's basically it.
Well, there's a lot of stories about it, but it's getting late, so we'll let it go at that point.
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