“See, we’ve seen the curse of the gifted before. Some of us were those kids in college. We learned the hard way that the bill always comes due – the scale of the problems always increases to a point where your native talent alone doesn’t cut it any more. The smarter you are, the longer it takes to hit that crunch point – and the harder the adjustment when you finally do. And we can see that *you*, poor damn genius that you are, are cruising for a serious bruising.”

- Eric S. Raymond to Linus Torvalds in his essay “The curse of the gifted programmer” (Full text here - http://lwn.net/2000/0824/a/esr-sharing.php3)