I like his, "don't let school interfere with your education"
However, to go with a line about having a "PhD in Having Designed and Built Lots of Shit" just sounds like something straight out of a Python sketch.
Besides, PhD's are not generally given out for "Having Designed and Built Lots of Shit", but more for having completed and documented an original body of research, to the standard required for submission to academic peer review.
You don't need to have a PhD to have done that, or to even be seeking a PhD when you do that. In that sense it is possible to even pick up PhD's almost by accident, if you are uncommonly curious and dedicated.
I have designed and built and fiddled with all sorts of complicated crap. I have not done a PhD however. A PhD is a different discipline. Someone who has genuinely put the work into a PhD doesn't just know a lot about the subject of their PhD, they are the authority.
Please don't take a joke on my part too far. It was just intended as a joke, nothing more. We have someone in the family with a PhD in Physics and we've had lots of very interesting conversations. We see each other several times a month in the context of family gatherings. Amazing depth of knowledge in his area (orbital mechanics mostly). Worked at JPL, etc.
He can't even assemble Ikea furniture. Does not like to exist in that world. My son and I had to go to his house and install a window air conditioner for him because he had no idea where to start and barely owns any tools. I find that odd and funny in many ways.
When it comes to real-world embodiments of theoretical constructs he checks out. He was zero experience doing anything "real". I tried to have my son work with his uncle on some of his school science projects because I want him to engage with people at various levels. Every attempt has been a complete disaster. He either does not understand reduction to practice or over complicates things beyond recognition. I find this very interesting.
However, to go with a line about having a "PhD in Having Designed and Built Lots of Shit" just sounds like something straight out of a Python sketch.
Besides, PhD's are not generally given out for "Having Designed and Built Lots of Shit", but more for having completed and documented an original body of research, to the standard required for submission to academic peer review.
You don't need to have a PhD to have done that, or to even be seeking a PhD when you do that. In that sense it is possible to even pick up PhD's almost by accident, if you are uncommonly curious and dedicated.
I have designed and built and fiddled with all sorts of complicated crap. I have not done a PhD however. A PhD is a different discipline. Someone who has genuinely put the work into a PhD doesn't just know a lot about the subject of their PhD, they are the authority.