If you're geeky enough to get both references, you're my kind of guy.

Someone who can play bagpipes, but doesn't. Definition of having too much money Paying $5000 for digital bagpipes. Of course, I'm not Scots—or José Ángel Hevis.

The man's a marvel. Gives good interview, too.

Why everybody is disappointed in the final product.

Buy a Kalishnakov, let a Sierra Leone blacksmith turn it into farm tools. Buy a tank, keep five blacksmiths busy for a year—and give 100 families the means to feed themselves.

The connection, among other things, was breaking up.

No, not when he said that there was a cosmological constant in his expanding universe calculation, but later when he took it back.