Surely Not Joking
I have been reading “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” for quite sometime now. You can find it here.
This book contains memoirs of Richard Feynman, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, but its actually much more than what it may seem. As an Introduction to this book Albert R. Hibbs very aptly writes
I hope these won’t be the only memoirs of Richard Feynman. Certainly the reminiscences here give a true picture of much of his character–his almost compulsive need to solve puzzles, his provocative mischievousness, his indignant impatience with pretension and hypocrisy, and his talent for one-upping anybody who tries to one-up him! This book is great reading: outrageous, shocking, still warm and very human.
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman. -
Adventures of a Curious Character
by Richard P. Feynman
as told to Ralph Leighton
In one of the incidents, I read
I tried to explain–it was my own aunt–that there was no reason not to do that, but you can’t say that to anybody who’s smart, who runs a hotel! I learned there that innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world.
Certainly many, many people have found out that, Richard was not joking! These memoirs also very nicely and subtly portray the way the educational system is. No one is here to learn, only to get great GPA so they can get a good job. How can one get good grades? Ask any engineer in India.
I felt that the book was very similar to the Common Man, and even other subtle instances as the ones in Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson.
