#geniuses

Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective. ↗

— Criss Jami

#amount #classification #classify #context #creativity

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#administrative #color #course #fire #fit

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#art #build #computer #computer science #doing

Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#dozen #fairly #genius #geniuses #got

I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples. ↗

— Joe Pantoliano

#bound #collaboration #complete #effort #geniuses

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#brothers #clown #columbus #does #fact

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#geniuses #ten #up

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#along #average #beings #composed #geniuses

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that. ↗

— David Duchovny

#aspire #between #certain #completely #far

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#geniuses #intellectuals #prevent #problems #solve