Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2025 source ↗
I would like to add something that’s not essential to the science, but something I kind of believe, which is that you should not fool the layman when you’re talking as a scientist.
Recorded Caltech commencement address, Engineering and Science / Caltech Magazine, 1974 source ↗
Trying to exercise authority over one.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 June 2026 source ↗
Being two-faced.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 August 2024 source ↗
Bullying, flakiness, rudeness, lack of humility, being patronising and ungenerous.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2024 source ↗
Anyone brave enough to truly be themselves.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2025 source ↗
I’m terribly impatient.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2025 source ↗
Losing my mind.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2025 source ↗
Right now: Summer. Dusk. On my couch watching Australian Open tennis with my kids and dog. Doors wide open to a beautiful body of water. The first star of the night just appeared in the sky. Life is magical.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2025 source ↗
Floating on my back in the ocean.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 5 March 2025 source ↗
Adam Kay, Adrian Dunbar, Ai Weiwei, Alan Arkin, Alex Hassell, Alex Lawther
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