"Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity."

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Source : James Gleick (1992). “Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman”, Pantheon

James Gleick

#Player Quotes #Skills Quotes #Mad Quotes

“I am all about comfort and whatever comes along with comfort. I wear a lot of sweats. But Im also very preppy naturally.”
“... In relation to the way in which I look upon the works of God and his creatures, I will say that I was naturally begotten; so was my father, and also my Saviour Jesus Christ. According to the Scriptures, he is the first begotten of his father in the flesh, and there was noting unnatural about it.”
“I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.”
“A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.”

Source : Rudolf Arnheim (1957). “Film as Art”, p.195, Univ of California Press
“I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.”
“For a well-made cup of coffee is the proper beginning to an idle day. Its aroma is beguiling, its taste is sweet; yet it leaves behind only bitterness and regret. In that, it resembles, surely, the pleasures of love.”
“I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.”
“Life is full of many minor annoyances, and few matters of real consequence.”

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