From the comments, I'm having a hard time telling ...

From the comments, I'm having a hard time telling if this was a surprise to other people or not. When I hire people, I certainly look for smarts because its somewhat like height in basketball - you can't teach it.

But you also can't teach drive, desire for quality and a bunch of other aspects that we also use during selection. So, I guess maybe I shouldn't have been surprised, but I was.