Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Greatness can be doled out only with an equal measure of weakness

Janna Levin, on Kurt Godel and Alan Turing, the subjects of her book "A madman dreams of Turing Machines" 2006, p. 3

Quote in context:

"Their genius is a testament to our own worth, and antidote to insignificance; and their bounteous flaws are luckless but seemingly natural complements, as though greatness can be doled out only with an equal measure of weakness."