The Essence of Genius is Brevity
A good quote is the essence of genius as it spans a universe of truth with an economy of language. It is no accident that Albert Einstein, along with his equals in science, literature, medicine, art, music, and other pursuits conducive to genius, have left us with so many quotable quotes. The core of a moment of genius is getting to the absolute heart, the conceptual core, of something. The proof of having “gotten there” is that you understand it well enough to be brief.
As E.F. Schumacher, the great British economist, and author of Small is Beautiful, once observed: “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” And that’s all we have to say about that.
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