He was an unusual sort, obsessive, but gripped by the power and the beauty of sheer computation. I think that was a driving force behind what he did.
Once Newton (1642-1727) was onto something, he was gripped by it and he worked at it and worked at it and worked at it until he could solve [...]
Q: Your character [on the tv series “House”] Dr. Lisa Cuddy finds Dr. House [Hugh Laurie] hot. Would you be attracted to a guy like him?
Lisa Edelstein : “Yeah, I like smarty-pants. It’s sexy when a guy is that witty and bright. Even at the cost of social skills. I have plenty of social skills [...]
Positive Disintegration
Kazimierz Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration (TPD) describes personality and emotional development from lower toward higher levels.
In her article Theory of Positive Disintegration as a Model of Personality Development For Exceptional Individuals, Elizabeth Mika notes that some people’s developmental potential “contains strong positive and negative elements” and “the intensity of the developmental processes on [...]