This reminds me a bit of a steve yegge quote. "Having a good memory is a serious impediment to understanding. It lets you cheat your way through life." This a

This reminds me a bit of a steve yegge quote. "Having a good memory is a serious impediment to understanding. It lets you cheat your way through life." This also reminds me quite a bit of the famous conversation between Eric S. Raymond and Linus Torvalds about "the curse of the gifted."