Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. – Henry Ward Beecher Category: Genius
A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. – Samuel Butler Category: Genius
The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. – Louis Aragon Category: Genius
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you. – Haruki Murakami Category: Age
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. – Albert Camus Category: Friendship
The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large. – Tim Berners-Lee Category: relationship