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"The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers."
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"Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."
"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."
"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."
"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."
"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."
"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity."
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"The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life."
"Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."
"A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time."
"The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums."
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