WHat would constitute a “perfect” evening for you?
I don’t know, there are quite a lot of different things that could be perfect, going to a club with loads of good music and good friends, or having a lovely meal with a few select people, or a stroll on a beach at sunset, or skiing into the nighttime, or …
WOuld you rather be extremely successful professionally and have a tolerable but unexciting private life, or have an extremely happy private life and only a tolerable and uninspiring professional career?
I’m erring toward the former, though the balance isn’t to the extreme yet.
Whom do you admire most? In what way does that person inspire you?
Richard Feynman, because he had more curiosity than most and had the guts and intellegence to do something useful with it.
If you could select at birth the profession your child would eventually pursue, would you do so?
No. Absolutely not.
Would you be willing to become extremely ugly if it meant you could live for 100 years at any physical age you choose?
Erm, not sure, its another of those hypotheticals, isn’t it? But probably, yes, physical appearance has never been that important to me so it wouldn’t be that much of an issue.
If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one ability or quality, what would it be?
An ability to understand people.