Adaptive Genius Gifts

"I've mutated."

"I'll bet all of Albert Einstein's teachers felt like idiots for giving him bad grades too."

"You're a genius, Shaw. This is an idea whose copyright has expired."

"Draw your own path."

"I have a feeling he understands more than we think."

"Quick! The ideas are hatching!"

'Tommy's book reports are like no other.'

"I just figured she was holding all my calls. Turns out she's been running the company."

"Technology is for babies!"

"Look. He's just created his first text output object."

"I hear it's because we're right and they're wrong."

'Yes, we can get all this into your ad, but we'll have to set the copy in 0.00005 point type.'

Two words, boss: Virtual reality. We glue virtual reality goggles to our coffee mugs. Come again? When patrons sip their Himalayan mochas, they'll think they're dangling from a cliff in the Himalayan mountains. People will come from Miles around! People will throw up for miles around. We'll give patrons mops that double as virtual reality hockey sticks. This conversation is virtually over.

"Our marketing budget has become a black hole."

"I didn't learn anything in school today but I'll learn twice as much tomorrow."

Academia Can Kill By Degrees

"My organization will ALSO be focusing on this section here."

Ship's cook escaping in a saucepan.

'I love you and your father loves you. Now go paint a masterpiece.'

'I like Haffner's idea better...if we get caught, his idea is good for only six months in the slammer. Your idea is good for five to ten years.'

"And you laughed when I had it installed."

'My ability to adapt is the key to my success.'

"To be or not to be."

"He may be a child prodigy, but it's still a lousy C.V."

Block block.

'Believe me, the Captain is the least handicapped man on this ship!'

'Remember Tom, creativity is no substitute for knowing what you're doing.'

"Harold is a closet intellectual and he's never coming out."

As is often the case, many of the world's great discoveries are accidental.

'My idea's quite simple really. Put the money in the bag!'

'While you were sleeping, I built it out of an abandoned sailboat that was floating by. Who's 'Mr. Stupid Idiot' now?'

How to win 'Genius Grants' for dummies.

'Nike's early failures inspired his later success.'

'The gene therapy we used is our intellectual property, so we had you copyrighted.'

'Sorry, that mental note has been deleted.'