TIL^

An amazing example of the influence that a father can have...

> I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics. When I told my father I wanted to be a physicist, he said, "Hell, no, you ain't going to work in a drugstore." I said, No, not a pharmacist. I said, "Like Einstein." He poked me in the chest with a piece of plumbing pipe. "You ain't going to be no engineer," he said. "You're going to be Einstein."

@skullpatrol Leonard was good friends with Feynman... Feynman's father was also an amazing influence

I have a home built router connecting my home computer network to the internet named after Melville

Now I'm curious... I wonder if the wiki page for Feynman mentions Melville