The Wright Brothers are considered Geniuses...
"I confess that in 1901, I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years. . . . Ever since, I have distrusted myself and avoided all predictions."
— Wilbur Wright, in a speech to the Aero Club of France, 5 November 1908.
Before that, the President said:
"Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar and snort their way through the countryside, setting fire to the crops, scaring the livestock, and frightening women and children. The Almighty certainly never intended that people should travel at such break-neck speed."
— President Martin Van Buren, 1829
"Oh well, I suppose lots of people will do it now."
— Arthur Whitten Brown, to Capt. John Alcock after they crash landed in a bog at Cliften, Ireland, after completing the first transatlantic flight, 1919.
Genius is pressing on when everyone thinks that it is impossible and that you are crazy...
"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information."
-- Winston Churchill
On the opposite shore there is Kanye West... anti-genius
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