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This is a group of ‘epicenter geniuses’. People so goddamn smart, other smart people gravitate towards their brilliance like planets around the sun, until the group gets so intelligent, they start inventing things that change the world. Like disease curing medicines… or city destroying atomic bombs. However, smart doesn’t ALWAYS mean ‘correct’. In fact, most geniuses make some brilliant mistakes along their path to higher enlightenment. Consider Viagra was a mistake discovered in th...

i come in to calibrate the synthesizer for the morning tests... i walk in, i see two guys pushing it down the hall, and i turn around and theres another guy there with a gun, and he cold-cocks me. david: was the weapon a shotgun, a handgun; maybe it was a rifle? no, it was a nickel-plated beretta. it was a nine-millimeter. you know a lot about guns. you grow up in south philly, you see your share. could you recognize the burglars if you saw them again? the guy with the gun. the other ...