You can see from their traits: 1) Super smart 2) Actively thinking every single day 3) Thinking how to solve hard problems 4) Too involved/focused with the

You can see from their traits: 1) Super smart 2) Actively thinking every single day 3) Thinking how to solve hard problems 4) Too involved/focused with the area field they are in When people called that RMS is nuts, sometime I wonder, is he really that nuts? He's fighting for a better world of software. But at the same time, he doesn't fight over super-hard-algorithm. RMS is still in touch with humans albeit he's fighting/arguing with them CEOs/PRs. The rate of suicide is high among Grad/PhD students because they have to "think outside the box" every single day. They have to find a "breakthrough". Sometime, "thinking outside the box" means to break all the logics and common sense around you. When you start bending logics, there's a good chance the situation will change the way you perceive things. You began to accept your "new logic" (as in this case, human is just like a program, disease equals to bug).