Posts tagged “genius”

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
Guy de Maupassant, (b) Aug. 5, 1850

“The thinking of genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.”
Dorothy Thompson, American journalist (1894-1961)

“When I was about 12 I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody’s noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one. And if there isn’t, I don’t really care.”
John Lennon

“Sometimes I get distracted by food; but mostly all I think about is women and baseball.”
Robert B. Parker’s Spenser

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.