Friday, October 24, 2014

I guess it depends …

… Art of Darkness - NYTimes.com. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

 … the more we read about Jobs publicly humiliating colleagues and refusing to acknowledge responsibility for the birth of his first child, the more we see that his genius could seem inextricable from his indifference to social norms.
There is no reason to assume any necessary connection between genius and personality. If more geniuses than not are shits rather than saints, well, the same is probably true of the human race as a whole.

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