I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.
And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

