he had antagonized his professors at the zurich polytechnic, and he was the only one of his colleagues who didn't get a job directly at that college. and the problem was he didn't know how to handle authority. he treated the professors in the same pleasant, easygoing way that he treated the cleaning women. and the professors in those days in germany expected to be treated like minor royalty. and they said he knew it all, he wouldn't listen to them. and he missed all the lectures that didn't interest him, such as math, and the math professor said he was "a lazy dog" -- his summing up of einstein. but to his friends, he was intriguing, dynamic, spontaneous. and to one, a man called marcel grossmann, who knew him at college only in these early days, grossmann went home to his parents and said, "i've met a man who one day is going to be a very great man," which was an incredible prophecy when everybody else was saying, "he's a lazy dog. he's not going to make it." c-span: what have you done in your life as a profession? >> guest: let's think now. at 16, world war ii broke out. i had just g