How Perspectives Change!

by Benjamin Kuipers

Karl Rove on Math

From an interview on October 24, 2006 with Karl Rove by Robert Siegel of NPR.

• ROVE: I'm looking at all of these [polls] and adding them up. I add up to a Republican Senate and Republican House. You may end up with a different math but you are entitled to your math and I'm entitled to THE math.
• SIEGEL: I don't know if we're entitled to a different math but your ...
• ROVE: I said THE math.

I guess the math changed by November 7!

• 2006 US Election results

Non-parents on parenting

• When we have kids,
  we certainly won't let them misbehave like yours .

Advanced graduate student

... in the final stages of working on his thesis

• It's great having my wife and daughter out of town,
  because now I can work all the time.

Middle-school kid on adulthood

• It will be so great to be a grown-up,
  because then no one can tell you what to do,
  and you can do anything you want.