When I first met Asimov, I asked him if he was a professor at Boston University. He said no and ... asked me where I got my Ph.D. I said I didn't have one and he looked startled. "You mean you're in the same racket I am," he said, "you just read books by the professors and rewrite them?" That's really what I do.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "When I first met Asimov, I asked him if he was a professor at Boston University. He said no and ... asked me where I got my Ph.D. I said I didn't have one and he looked startled. "You mean you're in the same racket I am," he said, "you just read books by the professors and rewrite them?" That's really what I do." in the context of "Martin Gardner, as quoted in "Every Day" by Sally Helgeson, in Bookletter, Vol. 3, No. 8 (6 December 1976), p. 8" to mean that wisdom is timeless.