The Advantages of Rehearsing

Next week we'll be, if Dick was still alive, he's 100th birthday. And you're going down to Caltech. They're putting on a celebration I suppose. And you've got to speak. But only because I refused to rehearse. My experience with rehearsing is disastrous. It has been disastrous. When I'm actually speaking, I try to remember what I said when I rehearsed. And that's deadly. That's not a good way for me to present to a public. I have to do it fresh. IHave to do it with no preparation. I just start talking. So I didn't rehearse. Perhaps I'm the only Ted Speaker who never