Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.

I don't know if I have met a true genius. I do know that if I have met a genius, that they were never successful without hard work

The work is often deadly and boring, but it requires a keen intelligence, and the only way I can compete with large corporations is to treat my employees better, move them up faster, give them more money and put mirrors in the bathrooms.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction.

Genius has now all-but disappeared from public view; partly because intelligence (which is strongly genetic) is in decline in the West, partly because social institutions no longer recognize or nurture genius, and partly because the modern West is actively hostile to genius.

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.