The greatest minds of history.
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Gottfried Leibniz, Richard Dedekind, Georg Cantor, Gottlob Frege, David Hilbert, Alonso Church, Ernst Zermelo, Alfred Tarski, Kurt Godel, Alan Turing, John Von Neumann. To name but a few.
Isaac Asimov would be one, for sure. Basically the whole group of authors, Robert Heinlien, Arthur C. Clarke, so on.
I don't consider anyone a genius unless I've met them in person. Other people's accounts are too easy to manipulate or just get wrong.
If history is accurate to any degree, however, I'd add Shakespeare to the list. The things he wrote have no business being written by mortal man.
If history is accurate to any degree, however, I'd add Shakespeare to the list. The things he wrote have no business being written by mortal man.
David Thorne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Maddox, Dr. Seuss, Nostradomus, and Caligula (if trolling and not actually retarded).
My idols are pretty awful.
My idols are pretty awful.
TESLA!
He did things with electricity you couldn't imagine. Miles smarter than Edison. If only he'd had enough funds and time to make that death ray...
He did things with electricity you couldn't imagine. Miles smarter than Edison. If only he'd had enough funds and time to make that death ray...
*biased to other people with Aspergers and military*
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, William Westmoreland, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, John Moses Browning
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, William Westmoreland, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, John Moses Browning
George Orwell, Carl Jung, John Maynard Keynes, William Shakespeare, Sun Tzu, FDR, Nicholaus Copernicus, Johannes Gutenburg.
It is from them that most all of the great ideas and by extention things flowed. Especially Gutenburg.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gutenberg
EDIT: Hero in a half shell's commemoration of Tesla I stand behind as well.
It is from them that most all of the great ideas and by extention things flowed. Especially Gutenburg.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gutenberg
EDIT: Hero in a half shell's commemoration of Tesla I stand behind as well.
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire] - Seriously if you need him described to you then hang your head in shame and go to Wikipedia immediately.
Edmund Burke [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke] - British Parliamentarian
Adam Smith [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith] - Again, hang head in shame. Wikipedia now!
No one mentioned those three yet >.>
Also dare I add Otto von Bismarck [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck] who not only unified Germany from city states and Prussia but also predicted World War 1 and its cause.
...he did sort of create WW1 in the system in which he left Germany which would require a man as great as him in order to run the country and of course without such a man Germany ran strait into war and lost >.> Lets ignore that though.
Edmund Burke [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke] - British Parliamentarian
Adam Smith [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith] - Again, hang head in shame. Wikipedia now!
No one mentioned those three yet >.>
Also dare I add Otto von Bismarck [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck] who not only unified Germany from city states and Prussia but also predicted World War 1 and its cause.
...he did sort of create WW1 in the system in which he left Germany which would require a man as great as him in order to run the country and of course without such a man Germany ran strait into war and lost >.> Lets ignore that though.
Johann Gutenberg, for introducing the Printing Revolution.
Alan Turing, for changing the way people thought about the universe (namely, the existence of chaos).
Ari Fróði, for being one of the earliest historians in the world.
Alan Turing, for changing the way people thought about the universe (namely, the existence of chaos).
Ari Fróði, for being one of the earliest historians in the world.
You dare change what I said!?Roy Smith said:
Ah, all is forgiven. But what I'm really into is... well, I'm not that really into TV, but I have a few older series that I watch on box set.
Also, remember that Johannes ( Not Steve) is very important.
Charles Darwin, Niko Tinbergen, Linus Torvalds, James Lovelock, Kurt Vonnegut, the dynamic trio of Watson, Crick and Franklin, Alan Turing, Richard Dawkins, Albert Hofmann.
The list is extensive, and has a definite Godless hippie bias.
The list is extensive, and has a definite Godless hippie bias.
Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino,George Harrison, John Lennon, Stanley Kubrick, Todd Howard, Lauren Faust.
All heroes of mine.
All heroes of mine.