Smartest Person Alive
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Smartest in what ? science ? business ? art ? politics/social studies ? How do you define smart ? by how they are recognized ? or how much money they make ? Richard Dawkins Charles Taylor[^], Noam Chomsky, Bill Gates, Umberto Eco, Hans Rosling, ... Smart people are often polymath[^].
Nihil obstat
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I've been fortunate to know a number of people with 160-170 IQs and a number of other exceptional people. Met a guy who new the entire UK tax code, clause by clause at the age of 22, he's probably a billionaire by now and another who's one of less than 10 people in the world who actually fully understand both UK and European pension systems. I worked with a guy who was writing code against interfaces that Microsoft hadn't written yet but would get around to in 18 months time and he was close enough it took me 5 minutes to make it work when their new UI components showed up 2 years later. So how do you compare them? Is the guy who wins jeopardy smarter than the guy who wrote a novel where one in every 4 chapters was an internet news feed, in 1964? Are either of them smarter than the guy who lives his whole life without ever being called smart, without ever being rich and is happy every day?
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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For sure it's not me :) It seems that William Sidis was the smartest man ever to have lived... about 250... but anyway however smart one is, there will always be someone smarter.
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If you can legally make a billion dollars in a few years, that's pretty smart! A bit of luck helps, so I wouldn't say smartest, but worth mentioning Zuckerberg..
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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It's me. I'm also the humblest person in the world. Disclaimer: The above statements may be a subjective opinion and therefore not entirely accurate in all cases.
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits. - Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most. - I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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Smartest in what ? science ? business ? art ? politics/social studies ? How do you define smart ? by how they are recognized ? or how much money they make ? Richard Dawkins Charles Taylor[^], Noam Chomsky, Bill Gates, Umberto Eco, Hans Rosling, ... Smart people are often polymath[^].
Nihil obstat
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I've been fortunate to know a number of people with 160-170 IQs and a number of other exceptional people. Met a guy who new the entire UK tax code, clause by clause at the age of 22, he's probably a billionaire by now and another who's one of less than 10 people in the world who actually fully understand both UK and European pension systems. I worked with a guy who was writing code against interfaces that Microsoft hadn't written yet but would get around to in 18 months time and he was close enough it took me 5 minutes to make it work when their new UI components showed up 2 years later. So how do you compare them? Is the guy who wins jeopardy smarter than the guy who wrote a novel where one in every 4 chapters was an internet news feed, in 1964? Are either of them smarter than the guy who lives his whole life without ever being called smart, without ever being rich and is happy every day?
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Yes. Leonardo gets my vote because he was so broad and so far ahead of his time with so little to build upon. Did you know they recently discovered that his glider design actually works, 350 years before the Wright brothers. :omg:
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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It's me. I'm also the humblest person in the world. Disclaimer: The above statements may be a subjective opinion and therefore not entirely accurate in all cases.
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits. - Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most. - I vaguely remember having a good memory...
I was going to nominate both of us for that honor. After all, you know everything there is to know except that you're an idiot, and I know that. ;P
Will Rogers never met me.
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There is Christopher Langan, but he seems like a bit of an ass (huge ego) and is probably not the best role model. Though he did write The Art of Knowing: Expositions on Free Will and Selected Essays, which is pretty interesting (I've only read a part of it).
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My wife - she knows everything...
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I don't know but reminds me of the punchline of an old joke, "No Worries, the smartest man in the world just jumped out of the plane with my backpack!" (3 guys on a plane, crashing, only 2 parachutes...)
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Wrong question... Sons are supposed to think their daddy is the smartest person in the world. At least until they turn 12.
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
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Wrong question... Sons are supposed to think their daddy is the smartest person in the world. At least until they turn 12.
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
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Great signature Naerling :laugh: BTW, I once had a cousin who was a half-naerling...
Cheees, Edo
It's just a shame that you spelled his name wrong. After all, it's not as though it was on the screen in front of you.
I was brought up to respect my elders. I don't respect many people nowadays.
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