Barbarians or Geniuses at the Gate?

In fact, there's many more male geniuses in the world.

He liked to talk about the spiritual geniuses of the ages.

Babies and children are geniuses until they turn seven, and then there's a systematic decline.

Luckily, there are millions and millions of geniuses willing to gift us with their best ideas.

I would like to see Oracle take up that, or some other technological geniuses work on this.

Biomimicry is a new discipline that tries to learn from those geniuses, and take advice from them, design advice.

Well, because Mr. Anderson told me that this session is called Sync and Flow, I was wondering, What do I know that these geniuses don't?

Well, let's round these kids up, put them in pens and make them play for months at a time they'll all be geniuses and go to Harvard.

Now in order to do this, the design challenge of our century, I think, we need a way to remind ourselves of those geniuses, and to somehow meet them again.

But instead, what we're finding on the Internet and one of the great geniuses of it is that people have found a way to work together without any money involved at all.

When recommending an Indian mathematician to a Harvard colleague, Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote that scientific geniuses generally have one great idea in their life he has had two. What could we say about Phelps?

When they meet those who believe, they say, We, too, are believers , but when they privily meet their evil geniuses, they say, Indeed we are with you we are only mocking at these people .

When they meet those who believe, they say, We, too, are believers , but when they privily meet their evil geniuses, they say, Indeed we are with you we are only mocking at these people .

We've gone from the image of India as land of fakirs lying on beds of nails, and snake charmers with the Indian rope trick, to the image of India as a land of mathematical geniuses, computer wizards, software gurus.

A few geniuses aside, economists frame their assumptions to suit existing states of affairs, and then invest them with an aura of permanent truth. They are intellectual butlers, serving the interests of those in power, not vigilant observers of shifting reality.

One answer that can be easily dismissed is that politicians simply don t understand the gravity of the situation. Political leaders need not be economic geniuses to understand the advice that they hear, and many are both intelligent and well read.

Maybe it was a career decision. I know the Google geniuses I saw here I mean, I understand that their decision was to sell their technology at first. What if they made that decision versus to build their own culture? How would the world be different?

When the market boomed, such schemes authors were heralded as geniuses. But when house prices fell and mortgage backed securities (and derivatives based on them) became illiquid, Citigroup took the liabilities back onto its balance sheet and then needed to be rescued through massive, repeated bailouts.

And Einstein said and I think this is a quote, again, that has not been passed down in his legacy that these kinds of people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security and joy of humanity than the discoverers of objective knowledge.