> When I was a kid growing up in Far Rockaway, I had a friend named Bernie Walker. We both had "labs" at home, and we would do various "experiments." One time,

> When I was a kid growing up in Far Rockaway, I had a friend named Bernie Walker. We both had "labs" at home, and we would do various "experiments." One time, we were discussing something -- we must have been 11 or 12 at the time -- and I said, "But thinking is nothing but talking to yourself inside." > "Oh yeah?" Bernie said. "Do you know the crazy shape of the crankshaft in a car?" > "Yeah, what of it?" > "Good. Now tell me: how did you describe it when you were talking to yourself?" - "What Do You Care What Other People Think?", Richard Feynman