About the quote, when googling it it’s often cited without specifying a source. It’s from a 1952 BBC radio broadcast titled “Can Automatic Calculating Machines Be Said to Think?“. The transcript is here: turingarchive.kings.cam.ac.uk/publications...
The quote is on p. 19

I know that feeling Karpathy describes. When I’m overwhelmed or confused, that’s usually when there’s actually something to learn. Same with reading—it’s not passive. You need to wrestle with it.
This session w/ Dwarkesh & Andy Matuschak shows that really well: youtu.be/OFuu4pesKf0

Source: x.com/karpathy/sta...