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by reallymental 3019 days ago
That's all very nicely put, to fit a lot of people into that mould don't you think? Very 'horoscopic'.

Everyone is disagreeable & eccentric to some extent when they were young, including the world's great engineers/theorists.

There's more to this equation, add parameter of hard work, a bit of obsession (or 'passion', whatever that is...), a bit of environmental 'push', and THEN perhaps that might yield a 'great' individual who does that one thing very well.

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In other news, 100% of known engineers is human.

A much more interesting piece of information would be how many people have those characteristics, but do _not_ turn out to be great engineers.