In fact, my experience is that only another genius would recognize that the work of a genius could have flaws that require correcting.
Most people are sheep and blindly follow “the directions,” even when those directions result in nonfunctioning items. They blame the nonfunctionality on themselves, rather than on the design.

Hence the notations you’ll find on many processed food products these days, “You’ll find that this might taste good with a little cheese on it. Or maybe some salt.” They have to be told to “think outside the box,” as it were. Many people get all weird about the idea of even modifying a published recipe. The published version is the “correct” version in their minds. Perhaps this phemonenon is a good part of why some people get all weird about the idea of open source software. They need to feel that out there, somewhere, is a definatively “correct” version, handed down from the mountain engraved on stone tablets by some programing god or other.

Most people who play classical music play it as if they were some sort of flawed mechanism in a player piano whose function is to reproduce the markings on the paper as closely, and mechanically, as possible.

The musical genius recognizes that the markings on the paper are one genius talking to another genius, saying, “Hey, look at this idea,” and interprets the music. — kfg