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[Misc] Who is a genius ?
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I've been lucky enough to meet a couple of people in my career who I consider border line genius.
One is an expert on subtitling and the other an elderly mathematician/programmer (who worked on the first version of Windows) who was obsessed with television "metadata", i.e. the stuff that appears on your TV/On Demand menu.
Both having a huge influence in the TV industry but both very academic and under the covers.
One is an expert on subtitling and the other an elderly mathematician/programmer (who worked on the first version of Windows) who was obsessed with television "metadata", i.e. the stuff that appears on your TV/On Demand menu.
Both having a huge influence in the TV industry but both very academic and under the covers.
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I've met Trevor Baylis a couple of times - in fact, I did some work for him once (a very small amount). He was a nice bloke but I wouldn't have called him a genius
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In his autobiography, Stephen Fry recounts a story of his time at prep school. Intrigued to know what information is held about him, he breaks into the headmaster's study one Saturday afternoon whilst the rest of the school are playing cricket and retrieves his file from a large cabinet. Inside his file he discovers his 11+ exam paper and instead of a score, the examiner had simply written, "Approaching genius."
Such was his arrogance at the time, Fry recalls stalking out of the room, utterly indignant about the examiner's inclusion of the qualifier, "approaching."
Such was his arrogance at the time, Fry recalls stalking out of the room, utterly indignant about the examiner's inclusion of the qualifier, "approaching."
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The most overused word in our language. I read this definition of a genius
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
Much as I admire the great musicians and composers, I could not call them geniuses. I guess it is the great thinkers and inventors that deserve the title
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
Much as I admire the great musicians and composers, I could not call them geniuses. I guess it is the great thinkers and inventors that deserve the title
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It’s what he claims the “J” stands for
It’s what he claims the “J” stands for