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The descriptions of Einstein and Gödel's feelings remind me of http://paulgraham.com/hamming.html

> When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems.

> The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, in my opinion, has ruined more good scientists than any institution has created, judged by what they did before they came and judged by what they did after. Not that they weren't good afterwards, but they were superb before they got there and were only good afterwards.