Janna Levin, on Kurt Godel and Alan Turing, the subjects of her book "A madman dreams of Turing Machines" 2006, p. 3
Quote in context:
"Their genius is a testament to our own worth, and antidote to insignificance; and their bounteous flaws are luckless but seemingly natural complements, as though greatness can be doled out only with an equal measure of weakness."
