re: Stephen Hawking: 'If you feel you are in a black hole, don’t give up.

Anyone remember watching "Nova" on LPB before he got his computer, and he basically mumbled incoherently and had a translator/interpreter tell us what he said? I always thought it would have been cool if the interpreter was really the genius who decided that he didn't want the attention, so he made it out so Hawking was the genius.