Scott McCloud Quotes

My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

I was raised on technology. I grew up in Livermore, California, a town of physicists and cowboys. My parents worked at the government laboratories there. So technology was very normal for me.

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

Dad was very into electronics, robotics and computers, so I was interested in what he was doing.

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

For me specifically, it was important to graduate. In my family, I was one of the first graduates. My mom did not have a college degree. My dad did not have a college degree.

My parents were farmers' kids from South Dakota. My dad was an engineer. I wanted to be responsible and major in something pragmatic.

In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.

My parents were marvelously educated people.

My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.

I was very intellectually oriented, very early on.

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to Oberlin and wanted the liberal arts. Obviously I really get intense pleasure out of drawing connections between pieces and poems and literature and ideas.

My parents lived a modest life, and their main concern was the education of their children. My father was a self-taught man but had a great intellectual curiosity, not only for biblical and talmudic texts, but also for philosophy, psychoanalysis and history.

When student performance shows increases on test scores, that improvement is not associated with an increase in 'fluid intelligence' - that is, using logical thinking and problem solving in novel situations, rather than recalling previously learned facts and skills.

I'm a child of academics.

I have certainly enjoyed puzzles since an early age, and things that look like impossible things are often particularly intriguing.

My parents were bookish, very musical, but otherwise uninvolved in the arts or the academic world.

I was a science guy in school, numbers and science and formula: what made things work and how to bring them forward - not what happened.

My dad is one of the smartest guys I know.

I think what shaped me was I had two parents who were scientists, and especially, they were great readers. They had both grown up in sort of rural parts of the South and were oddballs where they grew up. They were budding intellectuals.

I just want people to be excited about hard stuff, that's what engineering is.

Perhaps more than English or history, STEM subjects require an enormous amount of foundational learning before students can become competent.