Twenty Questions: Noah Scott (as of late-Season-2)
Your favorite virtue
Perseverance, or I suppose you could call it stubbornness if you wanted to be unkind.
The quality that you most admire in a man
The ability to take a stand for what he knows is right, even if he's wrong.
The quality that you most admire in a woman
Their willingness to put up with men!
What you appreciate the most in your friends
They aren't afraid to tell me when they think I've made a mistake, and they're willing to listen to why it isn't a mistake.
Your main fault
I spend too much time working and not enough time with my family.
Your favourite occupation
Raising my daughters. I hope I've been doing a good job of it.
Your dream of happiness
Doing what I'm doing now, where I am now.
Your idea of misery
My wife and daughters being unable to support themselves when I'm gone.
If not yourself, what you should like to be
Sometimes I've wondered what it would be like to run a restaurant. Not the family-friendly places that are part of my space stations, but a fancy, Michelin-three-star establishment.
Where you would like to live
Right here, right now, watching the world wake up from history. Seriously, I have a happy home that I built with my family; why would I want to live anywhere else?
Your favorite authors
Robert A. Heinlein, Ian Fleming, Patrick O'Brian, "Doc" Smith, Spider Robinson, Kosuke Fujishima, Douglas Adams.
Your favorite composers
John Philip Souza, John Lennon (an odd choice for a magnate, but The Beatles had a huge influence on my childhood), Dr. John (there are a lot of Johns on this list), Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Yoko Kanno.
Your favorite artists
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Pablo Picasso, Edgar Degas, Andy Warhol, Kosuke Fujishima.
Your favorite fictional heroes
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, James Kirk (the original version, not the one from the reboot), Podkayne, Ahiru/Tutu.
Your heroes in real life
Neil Armstrong, John D. Rockefeller, James Watson and Francis Crick, Blackstone.
What you hate most of all
In my personal life, alienating two people who I could have been close to, if I wasn't blinded by my relationship with someone else. In general, the idea of the negative-sum and zero-sum situations - people shouldn't gain at the expense of other people losing.
Historical figures that you despise the most
There's the obvious mid-20th-century fascists, of course. But I don't have much good to say about Thomas Edison. He was everything a leader shouldn't be - hungry for the spotlight, dismissive of the people he hired, and desirous of taking all the credit for himself. And how he treated Tesla should have been a crime.
How you wish to die
Saving someone else's life.
Your present state of mind
Reflective, because I'm answering all these questions about myself.
Faults for which you have the most toleration
The ones I have myself: stubbornness and working too hard.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Your favorite virtue
Perseverance, or I suppose you could call it stubbornness if you wanted to be unkind.
The quality that you most admire in a man
The ability to take a stand for what he knows is right, even if he's wrong.
The quality that you most admire in a woman
Their willingness to put up with men!
What you appreciate the most in your friends
They aren't afraid to tell me when they think I've made a mistake, and they're willing to listen to why it isn't a mistake.
Your main fault
I spend too much time working and not enough time with my family.
Your favourite occupation
Raising my daughters. I hope I've been doing a good job of it.
Your dream of happiness
Doing what I'm doing now, where I am now.
Your idea of misery
My wife and daughters being unable to support themselves when I'm gone.
If not yourself, what you should like to be
Sometimes I've wondered what it would be like to run a restaurant. Not the family-friendly places that are part of my space stations, but a fancy, Michelin-three-star establishment.
Where you would like to live
Right here, right now, watching the world wake up from history. Seriously, I have a happy home that I built with my family; why would I want to live anywhere else?
Your favorite authors
Robert A. Heinlein, Ian Fleming, Patrick O'Brian, "Doc" Smith, Spider Robinson, Kosuke Fujishima, Douglas Adams.
Your favorite composers
John Philip Souza, John Lennon (an odd choice for a magnate, but The Beatles had a huge influence on my childhood), Dr. John (there are a lot of Johns on this list), Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Yoko Kanno.
Your favorite artists
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Pablo Picasso, Edgar Degas, Andy Warhol, Kosuke Fujishima.
Your favorite fictional heroes
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, James Kirk (the original version, not the one from the reboot), Podkayne, Ahiru/Tutu.
Your heroes in real life
Neil Armstrong, John D. Rockefeller, James Watson and Francis Crick, Blackstone.
What you hate most of all
In my personal life, alienating two people who I could have been close to, if I wasn't blinded by my relationship with someone else. In general, the idea of the negative-sum and zero-sum situations - people shouldn't gain at the expense of other people losing.
Historical figures that you despise the most
There's the obvious mid-20th-century fascists, of course. But I don't have much good to say about Thomas Edison. He was everything a leader shouldn't be - hungry for the spotlight, dismissive of the people he hired, and desirous of taking all the credit for himself. And how he treated Tesla should have been a crime.
How you wish to die
Saving someone else's life.
Your present state of mind
Reflective, because I'm answering all these questions about myself.
Faults for which you have the most toleration
The ones I have myself: stubbornness and working too hard.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012