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When I teach seminars, I tell people, 'Your stuff has to look like something that's out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.'

We get 150 notices a week for seminars.

Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.

I didn't intend to go into the seminar business.

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

I had a job transcribing a biotechnology-litigation seminar. You put headphones on and fast-forward and stop with your feet. There were a lot of 'um's.'

I was in the class they made 'The Social Network' about.

As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know.

One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was talked about in seminars by outside speakers aggressively recruited by the faculty.