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Audio of Malcolm Gladwell’s Feb 21st talk on a possible prodigies/late bloomers dichotomy. (This reminds me: in A Mathematician’s Apology, G.H. Hardy … gulfstream/2007

Quotes Collected

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is. They receive the soul as he also receives, but they more. -- … emerson/21

A man's first duty, a young man's at any rate, is to be ambitious. Ambition is a noble passion which may legitimately take many forms; there was something … hardy/5

No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. To take a simple illustration … hardy/4