"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains."

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"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains."

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"An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius."

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"I am the farthest thing from a computer genius."

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