What I do is kick them in the pants with a diamond-buckled shoe.

Socialites kid each other, their way of life, their friends; and I kid the whole setup.

When you start interpreting this sort of thing sociologically, it's like taking a butterfly and pinning its wings down. You start beating it apart and you have nothing there. You have a lot of different opinions that don't mean anything. Truman would have been bored and would have yawned at that.

What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out that others are doing something. It's also known as informational social influence.

I did not grow up thinking that I wanted to be an engineer. I had read some articles about girls becoming increasingly scientifically illiterate and that girls lacked confidence in their capabilities when it came to quantitative skills. And I just thought that was kind of wrong.

You have to get under the hood and spend some quality time with someone to understand what they're really good at.