I mourn these guys, even the ones I don't know -- including some I've never heard of in my ignorance -- because they take with them a certain intellectual wealth that can't really be passed on.
You can teach a skill, but teaching judgment is a whole lot harder.
I'm nowhere near being in the same league as these guys, but I have an appreciation of the value we lose when these guys go.
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