Jeffrey Salzberg, a theater lighting designer and college instructor from Essex Junction, Vermont, says that when explaining to students the need to be prepared for any and all possibilities, he invokes Salzberg’s Theory of Pizza: “It is better to have pizza you don’t want than to want pizza you don’t have.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Theory of Pizza”
We got an email from Jeffrey Salzberg. He’s in Essex Junction, Vermont.
And he writes, I’m a professional theater lighting designer and a sometime college teacher.
When explaining to students the need to be prepared for any and all reasonable possibilities, I refer to Salzburg’s theory of pizza, which I devised many years ago as a college sophomore.
Would you like to know what it is?
Salzburg’s theory of pizza.
Yes, please.
It is better to have pizza you don’t want than to want pizza you don’t have.
In other words, any pizza is better than no pizza.
Yes, yes.
If you’re working late at night on the set.
It’s true.
Right?
It’s true.
I know.
Or on Twitter @wayword.
Thank you.
