User:DocGov

Summary
Early life:
 * Air Force brat, middle class, suburban
 * ...a happy childhood

Before college:
 * rationalist and mystic, socialist and libertarian, scientific and artistic, religious and skeptical
 * ...a real mess.

College/post-grad:
 * history (Smithsonian fellowship), philosophy, physics and math, economics
 * ...Asked endless questions
 * and in the finest answers
 * found yet more questions

Letters in:
 * Engineering (aerospace), Law (intellectual property), Finance (corporate)

Worked as:
 * lawyer (patents), researcher (Wall Street), manager ("Main Street"), advisor (both streets), professor ("Mean streets" [just kidding about NYU, lol])

Joys:
 * unpredictable kids (note to future parents: you reap what you sow)
 * adoring wife (more than I deserve)
 * reading new research after they're all asleep (yea, that's my life)

Politics:
 * Economic Left/Right: 6.0; Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.0
 * (Courtesy: The Political Compass)

Big fan of privacy...and transparency...go figure

My contributions
Articles I've started:
 * The Casements

Articles I've substantially edited or re-written:
 * John D. Rockefeller (most rewarding [no pun intended])
 * Ludlow Massacre (most challenging)
 * Dodge v. Ford Motor Company
 * Libertarianism (most frustrating)

Favorite Einstein quotes

 * "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
 * "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
 * "A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."
 * "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
 * "Problems cannot be solved at the same level of consciousness that created them"
 * "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
 * "A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it."
 * "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
 * "He who joyfully marches to music rank and file...has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice."
 * "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
 * "All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree."
 * "Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
 * "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."