With characteristic wit, Sorkin demolished any post-graduation hubris. He told parents their heads were exploding because they think they brought their kids home from the maternity ward last month, and that no matter how many degrees their children receive, 'they will always be dumber than you are.' Then he turned to the graduates: you're barely functional, the screwups are coming for you, and there's no trick to avoiding them. It was Sorkin's way of normalizing failure before it arrives, delivered with the comedic timing of someone who lost a decade to cocaine addiction and turned an F in play analysis into an Academy Award.