"Academia is a heartless cold bureaucracy"

This man might be intelligent, but he is very known for making his mind up about something and then not changing it for anything.

"Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell has a whole chapter on this guy and people like him, according to Gladwell, Langan has barely had any contact with academia, so the above statement doesn't seem to have much backing. He got thrown out because he couldn't understand the "social norm" of speaking up for himself, something he hints at in the video.