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My boy's wicked smart - Good Will Hunting

• Michael Bolton Clone: I was just hoping you might give me some insight into the evolution... of the market economy in the southern colonies. My contention is that prior to the Revolutionary War, the economic modalities... especially in the southern colonies... could most aptly be characterized as... agrarian precapitalist.
• Will: Of course that's your contention. You're a first-year grad student. You just got finished readin' some Marxian historian, Pete Garrison, probably... You're gonna be convinced of that till next month when you get to James Lemon. Then you're gonna be talkin' about how the economies of Virginia and Pennsylvania... were entrepreneurial and capitalist way back in 1740. That's gonna last until next year. You're gonna be in here regurgitatin' Gordon Wood, talkin' about, you know, the prerevolutionary utopia... and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization.
• Michael Bolton Clone: Well, as a matter of fact, I won't, because Wood drastically underestimates the impact of...
• Will: Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions... predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth. You got that from Vickers' Work in Essex County. Page 98, right? I read that too. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or is that your thing? You come into a bar. You read some obscure passage. Then pretend- pawn it off as your own. As your own idea just to impress some girls? Embarrass my friend? See, the sad thing about a guy like you is, in 50 years, you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own. You're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. One: Don't do that. And two: You dropped 150 grand on a fuckin' education... you could've got for $1.50 in late charges at the public library.
• Michael Bolton Clone: Yeah, but I will have a degree, and you'll be servin' my kids fries at a drive through on our way to a skiing trip.
• Will: Maybe, but at least I won't be unoriginal. If you have a problem with that, we could step outside. We could figure it out.
• Michael Bolton Clone: No, man, there's no problem. It's cool.
• Will: It's cool?
• Michael Bolton Clone: Yeah.
• Will: Cool.