The world has lost a brilliant mind, but on a personal level, a friend has lost much more.
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The same could be said for many familiar designs, products and processes commonly attributed to a single brilliant mind.
And without the victimhood, Tesla is just another brilliant mind floating between the folds of history, rather than a lightning rod for channeling contemporary resentment and sublimating it into a cultish badge self-reaffirmation.
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"The Swing Era" might be uneven as a history of the music, but it shines as a highly opinionated and erudite survey from a brilliant mind with a golden ear and a precise pen.
It is also about doing the job more efficiently, for example when looking for needles of evidence in a haystack of documents: rather than relying on a single brilliant mind, Novus Law deploys teams of lawyers using technology and a process involving hundreds of small steps.
Not given to swearing or screaming at his employees, Moore's placid facade belies a brilliant engineering mind.
What was needed was a brilliant theological mind able to reconcile both these truths and make sense of them, but this did not emerge clearly from Pope Benedict's writings.
Talleyrand's name, to admirers, was a byword for diplomatic prowess: a brilliant political mind, a negotiator of unsurpassed skill and a tireless worker for the interests of France not to overlook a fount of worldly bons mots.
Mr Obama has let one former tax-avoider through: Tim Geithner, the new treasury secretary, who failed to pay self-employment taxes when he was a consultant for the International Monetary Fund. (Foes of America's absurdly complicated tax code were delighted to note that even a reputedly brilliant economic mind failed to comply with it.) But with the financial and economic crisis raging, Mr Geithner appeared simply too important to lose.
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He is a brilliant, creative and disciplined mind who has created many miracles with Tesla and Model S and beyond.
He said Mr Cargill had been a "brilliant journalist with an incisive, curious mind".
"He's a dealmaker, he's a brilliant businessman, he's a great strategic mind, " Michael White, of the UK's Guardian newspaper, which broke the hacking story, told CNN.
Despite the obvious intent of the Founders, they were still skeptical that their brilliant document would be understood, so with that in mind they wrote the 9th and 10th amendments.
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