“ Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. Alan Perlis Computer Scientist
“ Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. Albert Pike Attorney
“ Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature. Alexander Pope Poet
“ I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius. Alice Hoffman Novelist