I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Genius is initiative on fire.
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour 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.
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit.
The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
I'd want to bring a flamethrower to faculty meetings. The preciousness of academics and their fragile personalities would not be tolerated in any other business in the known universe.
No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.