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He basically said those things in an interview once. So while he might not react that way when looking for a job it really just depends on how much he wanted the job.


it really just depends on how much he wanted the job

I disagree. Feynman was famous for speaking his mind regardless of the context (Bohr insisted on Feynman's presence at critical points during the Manhattan project for exactly this reason, in fact -- everybody else was too inhibited around Bohr to speak up).

Feynman might have kicked himself afterwards, but wanting a job wouldn't have prevented him from pointing out an interviewer's errors.


There is a huge gap between speaking truth to power and being snippy to make yourself feel better. As a ridiculously intelligent and anti authoritarian friend put it. "You don't walk around barefoot on the first day of a new job, you need to break people in."

PS: And yes, he would eventually walk around the office / data centers without footwear.


You don't walk around barefoot on the first day of a new job, you need to break people in

I agree. And I'm sure Feynman would have agreed... until he got excited about something, at which point he would have completely forgotten.


I do to. There's nothing to it.


What things? The manhole stuff? Do you have a link?


Yea the manhole stuff was on google video, I think it may have been:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3164300309410618119#

Or something linked from there.

PS: "Tuva or Bust"

Edit: Sorry, I am having trouble finding it. There are several interviews that video is based on but they don't show the whole video.


"The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out"?

From the BBC Horizon program in 1981.

http://atheistmovies.blogspot.com/2009/07/pleasure-of-findin...


Oh? Do you have a source?




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