""" The conversation turned to why she had left graduate school. To my utter astonishment, she said it was because it made her feel stupid. After a couple of years of feeling stupid every day, she was ready to do something else.

Science makes me feel stupid too. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it. I even think it’s supposed to be this way:

For almost all of us, one of the reasons that we liked science in high school and college is that we were good at it... [and yet] an emotional need to discover new things has to enter into it too.

I was a third-year graduate student and I figured that [one of my professors] knew about 1000 times more than I did (conservative estimate). If he didn’t have the answer, nobody did.

That’s when it hit me: nobody did. That’s why it was a research problem.

"""

Exactly my relationship with computers and all things cybernetic: riding on the jagged edge of my stupidity. I will never figure it all out.