Scholar With Style Pillows

Medical Student

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

"Finally, after years of work, irrefutable proof that I'm a nerd."

Academic Jeopardy ... 'What Was the Maiden Name of Dante Alighieri's Maternal Grandmother?'

William Shakespeare a.k.a. Francis Bacon, Earl of Essex....

'When I asked you to do research for your assignment, I meant the library not on Google!'

'I asked Will if he wrote it. He said he wasn't sure.'

"I think you'll find the pen is writier than the sword."

The Last upper: Novus Ordo Style

"Have you been working out?"

"Must be another paradigm shift."

Wikipedia...

"Graduation day at kite flying school."

'Read that last part back to me.'

Too big to fail

"Fifty years in academia, studying, researching, writing and teaching. And what do they call me? ‘The Human AI’."

The Giamatti era

'Thirty years in academia and all I got was this chair.'

To monk showing book entitled 'Brand Spanking New Testament': "I think we may have to shorten the title."

Petrarch

"Quit your whining... Someday you'll appreciate affordable student housing."

"Mr Newton, we have carefully reviewed your work in alchemy and have come to one conclusion: stick to physics.'

"If history has taught us anything, it's taught us that there have been a ridiculous number of books written about history."

"Well, if the test is multiple choice I choose not to take it."

Brain Power

''Et cetera' implies that you know much more than you really do. . .'

"What does it all mean?"

The What's-The-Hurry? Institute

"Question authority"

W. B. Yeats

Lowbrow Lolita

"You might have time left for one more book, but only if it doesn't require and lot of research."

Francois Rabelais

"In closing, let me tell you that never in the universe have I spoken before such an attentive audience."

He's got 'I'm in grant renewal heaven' all over him.