Heard a joke from Sir Ken Robinson on a TED talk. "Professors think their body is there to take their head from one meeting to the next."
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Yeah, that's a pretty good definition of what helped to sail my marriage towards the rocks. Interesting to hear it applied in a wider professorial context; I thought it was just engineers.
"Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock." -- Frank Herbert