Junk thoughts of Curious Idiot

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/deane20130305

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45198217/ns/technology_and_science-science#.UOO0Im83sTA

You may study for a year and learn nothing, then unless you are disheartened by the empty results and give up, something will come to you in a flash. Owing to this nonlinearity, people cannot comprehend the nature of the rare event. There are routes to success that are nonrandom, but few, very few people have the mental stamina to follow them. Those who go the extra mile are rewarded. Most people give up before the rewards. - Nassim Nocholas Taleb(Fooled by randomness)

I see no special heroism in accumulating money, particularly if, in addition, the person is foolish enough to not even try to derive any tangible benefit from the wealth(aside from the pleasure of regularly counting the beans). - Nassim Nicholas Taleb(Fooled by randomness)

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. - Albert Einstein

The unifying similarity among geniuses and innovators is not cognitive or affective but motivational. What is common among them is the unwillingness or inability to strive for goals everyone else accepts. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"The techniques which induce a paradigm change may well be described as therapeutic, if only because, when they succeed, one learns one had been sick before." - Thomas Kuhn