Difficult Quote by Douglas Adams

“he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence and it…

— Douglas Adams

“What he found impossible was to shut off his brain, to detach himself from the intriguing problems with which (he) was involved, or to…

— zelda popkin

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do…

— Robertson Davies

“There was some simple, radical difference about him. He hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness.”

— John Barth

His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives were terrible,…

— Philip Dormer Stanhope

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he…

— Maya Angelou

“His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn't control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps…

— Ian Caldwell

Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.

— Walter Isaacson

Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.

— Jon Krakauer

He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naïveté and idealism; when young men skilled at…

— Jim Butcher

“He was his own worst enemy, al­ways ta­king sim­ple things and ma­king them com­pli­ca­ted.”

— Kate Sherwood

The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when…

— Anthony Daniels