Genius Quotes
UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.
So a military force has no constant formation, water has no constant shape: the ability to gain victory by changing and adapting according to the opponent is called genius.
Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
Everyone said, 'Emil, you are a fool!' But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!'
Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?
First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art.
There are days when everyone in the world looks like a Diane Arbus to me. She's a genius but her work is completely different to mine. But on those days I don't use my camera.
I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
This knowledge I pursure is the finest pleasure I have ever known. I could no sooner give it up that I could the very air that I breath.
The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.
Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very skilful, very clever and his left foot is like Diego Maradona's.
Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.
A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genie
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.