Being too good is apt to be uninteresting. Harry S. Truman
I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting. Donald Norman
What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off. Stephen Greenblatt