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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."
"Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it."
"I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?"
"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity."
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"The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness."
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