He says he spends little of his time reflecting on his own life, making a Socratic allusion as “esoteric” as some of his late-night College quips to Gleason might have been.
“I’ve always believed in the philosophy that the unexamined life is well worth living,” he says.
And for now Verba says he has no plans to reflect—or retire.
Instead, he will keep on juggling his academic, administrative and family life as he has at Harvard since 1975.
“Before Bill Gates wrote Windows, Sid invented multitasking,” Shepsle says. “Most of the rest of us are bound by trade-offs, but he isn’t.”
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—Staff writer Stephen M. Marks can be reached at marks@fas.harvard.edu.