> genius developer Who writes unmaintainable, unreadable code? Not my definition of genius at all. I worked with one genius in my 20 year career. He was a mari

> genius developer Who writes unmaintainable, unreadable code? Not my definition of genius at all. I worked with one genius in my 20 year career. He was a marine biologist and knew more about computers than me. He was scary smart and all the advice I had from other people about working with him was - he thinks in steps 1, 6 and 20. You need to get him to explain how he got from 1 to 6, and then how he got from 6 to 20. Often this would take weeks to get out of him, but the though had just popped into his head (often while working on something else.) Very interesting man. One of his quirks was the he had no idea what time of day it was. We had to tell him to go home or eat his lunch, else he'd just think it was perpetually "about half nine"