(via Alan Cumming - Blog - I am feeling chatty) People often ask me why I didn’t become a physician like my sister or my father.  And I have to say it’s because I’m not a fan of manual labor.  I wanted to do something creative.  And while being a scientist is not viewed as creative by today’s “creative” types, it is using your brain to come up with something completely new to solve a problem.  And if that doesn’t require creativity, well, you’re doing a crappy job of it. So, Ira, while your voice is eternally annoying, you have expressed something that gets at what it’s like to be a scientist as well.  At first, everything you do sucks, and then, magically, you get smarter.  I just started a new project, so I’m slogging through the suckiness, but I can feel new neural pathways being cleared, and hopefully soon, synapses will be racing along new routes to *creative* awesomeness.
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(via Alan Cumming - Blog - I am feeling chatty)

People often ask me why I didn’t become a physician like my sister or my father.  And I have to say it’s because I’m not a fan of manual labor.  I wanted to do something creative.  And while being a scientist is not viewed as creative by today’s “creative” types, it is using your brain to come up with something completely new to solve a problem.  And if that doesn’t require creativity, well, you’re doing a crappy job of it.

So, Ira, while your voice is eternally annoying, you have expressed something that gets at what it’s like to be a scientist as well.  At first, everything you do sucks, and then, magically, you get smarter.  I just started a new project, so I’m slogging through the suckiness, but I can feel new neural pathways being cleared, and hopefully soon, synapses will be racing along new routes to *creative* awesomeness.

Source: alancumming.com