When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of… — William James Copy Share Image
We are entering a hyperconnected world where every boss now has more access, cheap access to cheap labor, cheap genius, cheap robot,… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
How difficult it was for a woman, once she was named by doctors, to become a writer, because many aspects of her… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
As we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded trajectory from… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The genius of America may be that it has built "the fall of Rome" into its very makeup: it is very consciously… — Cullen Murphy Copy Share Image
I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific… — Paul Flory Copy Share Image
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage...They asked only for freedom of… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it. — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
Loner heroes do appeal to that part of yourself that feels as though your genius hasn't been recognised. — Shaun Evans Copy Share Image
I’m too young and ridiculous a person to speak for my generation, but I’d be happy to talk about my own experiences… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it? — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I worked as an editor, I read new novels being published in India every few days. They excited me tremendously for… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
"Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Naive people tend to generalize people as—-good, bad, kind, or evil based on their actions. However, even the smartest person in the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without… — Patricia Polacco Copy Share Image
Theodore Roosevelt regarded leadership as his one gift, the area in which he might be considered to possess genius. He presented his… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity. — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Having everyone get exposed to brainstorming, prototyping, thinking about a problem, that's a best practice. One of the things I love seeing… — Megan Smith Copy Share Image
Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new… — Fritz Zwicky Copy Share Image
The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
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