Genius - by Rabinow

"I promised earlier in the story to give my definition of a genius. A genius is a person I meet at a cocktail party who asks me what I'm doing. I say that I build reading machines. The next question is, "What are reading machines?" I start to tell. Ten minutes after I start, my listener knows more about reading machines than I do. I have met such people. 

That's genius." Oversimple?

Rabinow poses this problem in his book (inventing for fun and profit) :

Two men are on a desert island and haven't drunk water for a while. After a rain, they find a glass bottle upright in the sand and full to the brim. It's irregular, so that there is no symmetry at all. How can they divider the water equally. No implements of any kind are needed. They could be stark naked, though that has nothing to do with it. It is important to know that it can be done.

He says it took him about one hour. How long did it take me? About 5 minutes - atleast - I think I've got it:) Let's see ... :)

Yup, it was right. And, my proposed solution to the case of the bottle being only partially full but the same problem being posed was also right. According to him, he would have offered me a job:)