Gifted * Quotes

"He's a good person. He wanted me before I was smart."

Mary Adler: "You forgot the negative on the xponent."
Seymore Shankland: "Mary, why didn't you say anything?"
Mary Adler: "Frank says I'm not supposed to correct older people. Nobody likes a smartass."

Mary Adler: "Please don't make me go, you can keep homeschooling me."
Frank Adler: "I taught you everything I know. No more argument, okay? We discussed this ad nauseam."
Mary Adler: "What's ad nauseam?"
Frank Adler: "You don't know? Well, it looks like someone needs school."

Frank Adler: "You're going to take that girl, you're going to loan her out to some think tank where she can talk nontrivial zeros with a bunch of old Russian guys for the rest of her life."
Evelyn Adler: "And you'd bury her under a rock."

"I think your niece may be gifted."
[to Frank]

Bonnie: "What's your greatest fear?"
Frank Adler: "That I'll ruin Mary's life."

"You are denying the girl her potential. How many seven year-olds are doing advanced calculus?"
[to Frank]