Your annoying classmate who asked a lot of “stupid” questions—they might just have been strengthening their understanding of the fundamentals and not worried about how it sounded when they ask. Being The Fool in a smaller way at first.

— Astro Teller, Remarks at the 2025 Academic Convocation of Rochester Institute of Technology (2025)

Source: https://www.rit.edu/news/remarks-2025-academic-convocation-keynote-speaker-astro-teller

From remarks at Rochester Institute of Technology's 2025 academic convocation.

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