Ancient monuments and archaeological sites are perfectly preserved; the museums are bursting
with the genius of Italy's finest sons: Raffaello, Michelangelo, Tiziano, Canova; contemporary architects are still inspired by ancient buildings and squares (piazzas).
The exceptional acting goes above and beyond that of most movies today, and the writing is on par
with the genius of Lucas, Abrams, Cameron and Speilberg, radiating excellence, always.
Match that
with the genius of Drew Goddard, writer of «Cloverfield» & «Serenity» and you get one of the best horror film of the year.
After all, even principled conservatives skeptical of federal involvement in education can see a role for Washington when it comes to research, and one that is entirely consistent
with the genius of American government.
The Corporate Values Summit is being sponsored by the University of Nebraska at Omaha School of Business Administration and is included
with the Genius of Warren Buffett spring seminar tuition.
Not exact matches
Director
of ethical hacking, team building
genius, data visualization expert, cognitive computing architect, organizational catalyst, digital prophet, chief happiness manager: who would even have been able to come up
with such job titles in the early 2000s?
A help desk in the back, which Blumenthal compares to Apple's
Genius Bar, pays homage to the reference desk at a library: Staff members sit at the large (often wood or marble, and minimalist) piece
of furniture, armed
with a desktop computer and ready to assist.
David Morken admits that the promise he made to reward his kids
with iPhones if they brought home straight A's was no stroke
of genius.
This whole premise does have an air
of genius about it, considering that when you take on the perspective
of those you are talking
with, it engages people on the spot.
Empowered by his arrogance, he takes on the role
of the Fantastic Four's archnemesis, casting a shadow over the super group
with his
genius intellect.
See, the gap - toothed goal scorer got off to a rocky start in the ad game — perhaps following Mario Lemieux's lead
with a bizarre local car dealer commercial — but quickly turned things around last year
with a series
of quirky spots for Reebok CCM that featured his decapitated head's crazy - person / evil
genius laugh, and a turn for ESPN's SportsCenter that pegged him as a Russian spy.
The Donald has proven to have a particularly sick
genius for whipping up a crowd,
with his trademark mix
of belligerent non sequitur and naked pandering.
The
genius of a successful on - demand startup lies in how it replaces human supervision
with software sticks and carrots.
Everyone needs someone like her in their corner — she cheers me on, uses words like «
genius» too generously, and leaves me
with a sense
of clarity.
A stroke
of genius from two California inventors: replace rolled latex
with folded silicone.
CNBC's Dominic Chu speaks
with OnCore Golf Co-Founder, Bret Blakely, and
Genius in Residence, Robert Samuels, about the next generation
of golf balls.
It's an intentional and adventurous way
of life,
with the individual making a lifelong commitment to crafting and sharing his or her unique
genius.
That's the word from the
geniuses at MIT, who have figured out a way to eliminate the stoplight — that annoyance
of modern life — and replace it
with something called «slot - based intersections.»
Wired evidently had no trouble finding former colleagues to say nice things about him,
with the consensus being that he's very Bill Gates - like: a technical
genius who also happens to understand the business side
of things.
In a piece titled: «Dumb Money: Exposing Silicon Valley's Stupidest Investments,» a writer for New York magazine snarked»... what kind
of genius decided to throw $ 1.2 million at NaturallyCurly, the «leading social network and community for people
with wavy, curly and kinky hair?»»
It was this combination
of constant, obsessive worry, coupled
with an overactive imagination that caused Newton's breakdown, but also to his pervasive, all - encompassing creative
genius, says Perkins.
While he retains his reputation as a boy -
genius coder, in reality Zuckerberg is something
of a grinder — a 99 % perspiration guy who has surrounded himself
with a group
of people he respects and
with whom he is constantly stress - testing his hypotheses.
Before founding rap - lyrics annotation service Rap
Genius, Moghadam blogged his way out
of an internship
with Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway.
Instead
of buying into the «Moses myth» — venerating a small cluster
of genius individuals
with the power to part waters — companies can tap on design thinking to systematically build a bridge, according to University
of Virginia Darden School
of Business professor Jeanne Liedtka, «It's not one or the other — you can do both.»
But it's less compelling than the anecdotal stuff, snapshots
of genius quants and volcanic alphas playing dice
with billions
of other people's dollars.
Both
of Gilbert's sons, who were
with him at the game, had heard
of Rap
Genius, and Zechory and Gilbert got to chatting about running a company.
Rap
Genius kept the deal under wraps for a few months to coincide
with the arrival
of the site's new domain name,
Genius.com.
«And in the process, you'll get to study the evil
genius of a truly pathological killer; as even Holmes said, «I was born
with the devil in me.»»
But she also has a lesser - known connection
with the House
of Mouse: she starred in a Disney Channel movie called «
Genius.»
They contained structured lists
of Rap
Genius links, but were part
of spammy aggregator / scraping sites that had scraped (sometimes en masse) the posts
of the sites
with whom we had relationships (and posts from Rap
Genius itself).
#StellarLeaderShow Episode 1
with Dan Martell Dan Martell is a computer programmer, a business mentor to over 500 Startups and the
genius behind Clarity.fm, a website that connects people like you and me
with some
of the most accomplished business experts on the planet.
On a recent interview I did, I had the pleasure
of speaking
with a friend and colleague who is a
genius at building business relationships.
Keeping this idea
of delegating tasks so you can stay focused on your core
genius in mind, I want to leave you
with a bit
of homework to complete.
With that backdrop of doubters and detractors, Noah Kagan, employee # 30 at Facebook, pitched Mark Zuckerberg with what he thought was a genius idea: prove the Facebook skeptics wrong and show them that the fledgling startup could make real mo
With that backdrop
of doubters and detractors, Noah Kagan, employee # 30 at Facebook, pitched Mark Zuckerberg
with what he thought was a genius idea: prove the Facebook skeptics wrong and show them that the fledgling startup could make real mo
with what he thought was a
genius idea: prove the Facebook skeptics wrong and show them that the fledgling startup could make real money.
At the same time, Google has made itself into a kind
of alternative university,
with a pretty large «faculty»
of employee and non-employee
geniuses like Kurzweil, Thrun, Cerf, etc..
The decline
of BB is perhaps a more familiar story, but «Losing the Signal» enhances the drama
with personal human stories: how the founders»
genius and strengths ultimately became their downfall: the reliance on efficiency
of network and battery use ignored the groundswell
of desire for an always -
with - me computer.
Leonardo once explained to a Duke, who was complaining a painting was not progressing, «Men
of lofty
genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work the least, for their minds are occupied
with their ideas and the perfection
of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.»
[Steve Eisman] A write - up on the impending Hilton (HLT) spinoff [Clark Street Value] CBRE (CBG): industry deep dive to detect an emerging moat [Punch Card] A look at Discovery Communications (DISCA / K)[Contrarian Edge] Sustainable sources
of competitive advantage [Collaborative Fund] Why deep learning matters and what's next for AI [Algorithmia] The unexpected
genius of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg [Fortune] Google's online travel adventure upsets its biggest advertisers [Bloomberg] A billionaire's dreams
of creating a guns empire [NYMag] If oil refiners crash, so will the economy [WSJ] Mastercard, Visa set to reap spoils
of India's war on cash [Bloomberg] How Best Buy (BBY) fought Amazon [WSJ] The evolution
of media & entertainment: conversation
with CEOs [YouTube] How to get comfortable
with being umcomfortable [Inc] Why gut feelings may really help you make risky decisions [Washington Post] Why stoicism is one
of the best mind - hacks ever devised [Aeon]
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Toronto, May 21, 2009 — Toronto's MaRS Discovery District has combined the creative
genius of science and technology
with the drive
of entrepreneurs and capital to create a marriage that will see more Canadian ideas commercialized in this country and for those efforts it has won the Canadian Urban Institute's 2009 Creative City Award to be granted to MaRS on June 5 at the Urban Leadership Awards in Toronto.
Other events held in combination
with the Conference and also organized by Bob Miles have included value investor author book signings, mini-movie premieres, the Annual Omaha Value Dinner,
Genius of Warren Buffett Course and Annual Summt Series.
In fact,
with studies on
genius, research has shown that experts do not necessarily process information more quickly than any
of us, but rather they simply and cut noise out more effectively.
«Sometimes I fail to understand,» Ravi continued, «how men
with such high levels
of intelligence fail at such petty things as the stock market, even when you hear
of investment stories about individuals who've made fortunes because
of exceptional insights or sheer
genius!»
This is a masterstroke
of PR
genius by PotCoin
with the added benefit
of possibly opening the door to US and North Korea negotiations.
In our conversation
with the Incubator's co-founder, Sahil Baghla, said, that» we had been receiving a lot
of interest from fellow entrepreneurs seeking feedback on their ideas using the Blockchain technology and some
of the entrepreneurs we've met are building some really interesting applications, and we wanted to work
with them and see if we could get an opportunity to know and work
with more
of these
geniuses».
He tells us that he wanted to find the «cracks in the granite
of genius, the madness just below the surface, the intensity, the economic and psychological costs
of the frenzies
of writing, as well as the profound and mercurial mysteriousness
of a figure
with whom one is never really finished»» in short, to unearth the «Kierkegaard complex.»
God isn't a child
with a magnifying glass pointed at an ant farm, he's a
genius teacher who loves to see the moments
of «eureka» when we finally understand a part
of his work.
That is: the mind caught in an alien body; the not - quite -
genius nerd who's «the king
of foreplay» or will do anything to «get laid» and, really, anything to have a relational life
with a pretty girl; the highly erotic metrosexual who turns the whole cosmos into a romantic tale that has room for appreciating «The Good Wife»; the guy who is better than he says (but still genuinely short on manliness), but who is creepy in his ingenuity when it comes to using his robotic gadgets for personal satisfaction.
Admittedly, Stephen King is a
genius with ideas, but although I like many
of his books (as movies — The Green Mile) I will not read his books due to the filthy language.
I agree
with Spengler that it is mediocrities who feel threatened by the idea
of genius.