Mark Zuckerberg in a commencement speech
at Harvard on May 25 —
"Movies and pop culture get this all wrong.
The idea of a single eureka moment
is a dangerous lie. It makes us feel inadequate
since we haven’t had ours. It prevents people
with seeds of good ideas from getting started.
Oh, you know what else movies get wrong about
innovation? No one writes math formulas on glass.
That’s not a thing."
THE ACCOUNTANT (2016) 8 p.m. on HBO.
Ben Affleck stars as Christian Wolff, an enigmatic mathematics savant
with special-ops-caliber skills who moonlights as a numbers cruncher ….
— The New York Times today, What's on TV Saturday
In other news today —
“You can’t play Batman in a serious, square-jawed, straight-ahead way
without giving the audience the sense that there’s something behind
that mask waiting to get out, that he’s a little crazed, he’s strange.”
— The late Adam West, according to The Hollywood Reporter
Update of 2:42 PM ET Saturday —