in reply to What if you are not a genius?

Funny you should mention that. Just the other day, betwixt discovering that my solution to Fermat's Last Theorum also describes the molecular composition of Buckminster-Fullerenes, I happened to notice that the local peasantry were outside my gates carrying torches and farm implements...

Methinks you just do the best the can with what you've got. Enthusiasm and dedication wins the day.

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Re: Re: What if you are not a genius?
by jepri (Parson) on Jun 10, 2001 at 20:06 UTC
    Personally I hope that old age and cunning beats youth, experience, enthusiasm and dedication.

    It's not working so far... :)

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Re: Re: What if you are not a genius?
by Tiefling (Monk) on Jun 11, 2001 at 15:48 UTC
    I happened to multi-task away from my work on a sonnet describing a simple proof of the four-colour theorem and see this. :-)

    When I was srawls' age, I was writing fairly sophisticated software. Unfortunately, I was doing it in BASIC. I wish that at his age I had had access to Perl. When younger, one has far more ability to absorb information easily. It's clever to be able to do so and consequently produce nice code, but it doesn't make any of us genii. On the other hand, there are probably numerous genii here on PerlMonks, so I may be unfairly deprecating people's abiltiies. What is special is the combination of so much talent (youthful and otherwise) with the excellence of Perl itself. The world is our mollusc of choice, especially if we work together.

    Hmm. That was incoherent. Sorry.

    Tiefling (heading off to translate the Great Bible version of the psalms into the equivalent era's Swedish :-)

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Re: Re: What if you are not a genius?
by Odud (Pilgrim) on Jun 12, 2001 at 00:20 UTC
    But since Andrew Wiles has proved this already I'm surprised you are wasting your time!
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