I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made me do something I didn't think I could do.... If you trust him, you can do things. If he's decided that something should happen, then he's just going to make it happen. (Elizabeth Holmes)

Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.