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  • F Forogar

    Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.

    - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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    CPallini
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    Carlo & The Klingons. :laugh:

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    • F Forogar

      Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.

      - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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      Rear Admiral Grace Hopper - one of the greats of the early days of computing. Famed for her work on COBOL and CODASYL. Also well known for carrying a nanosecond in her handbag (a piece of wire about 12" long) to demonstrate the physical limits of computing as its length is the maximum distance that electromagnetic energy (e.g. light) can travel in a second.

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      • F Forogar

        Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.

        - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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        JohaViss61
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        I have many heroes. Here are my top 5 Johannes Gutenberg - Without him a book was un-affordable.:thumbsup: Aaron Swartz - A genius and hacktivist. Murdered by the US government. You will be missed.:rose: Alan Turing - A great mind and treated so wrong by the UK government. :(( Steven Hawking - The genius of all mankind and a great sense of humor. Big Bang Theory is not as funny without you. :-D Unknown - The inventor of the number zero, the basis of all computer code.:java:

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        • F Forogar

          Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.

          - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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          My mate Harry. :)

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            I have many heroes. Here are my top 5 Johannes Gutenberg - Without him a book was un-affordable.:thumbsup: Aaron Swartz - A genius and hacktivist. Murdered by the US government. You will be missed.:rose: Alan Turing - A great mind and treated so wrong by the UK government. :(( Steven Hawking - The genius of all mankind and a great sense of humor. Big Bang Theory is not as funny without you. :-D Unknown - The inventor of the number zero, the basis of all computer code.:java:

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            Member 12837564 wrote:

            Unknown - The inventor of the number zero, the basis of all computer code.[Coffee]

            Aryabhata.

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            • M Munchies_Matt

              My mate Harry. :)

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              GKP1992
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              Like in Potter? ;P

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                Like in Potter? ;P

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                Munchies_Matt
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                As in a good friend of mine who has done so much crazy stuff in his life it should be in a book. :)

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                  As in a good friend of mine who has done so much crazy stuff in his life it should be in a book. :)

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                  :-D Don't all out mates deserve that.

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                    :-D Don't all out mates deserve that.

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                    If they had all climbed the highest mountain in the world outside the Himalyas, on their own, with a paralysed left arm, from a bike crash, yes!

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                    • M Munchies_Matt

                      If they had all climbed the highest mountain in the world outside the Himalyas, on their own, with a paralysed left arm, from a bike crash, yes!

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                      Your pride is well placed. :thumbsup:

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                        Your pride is well placed. :thumbsup:

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                        He has also driven Triumph Bonnevilles around most of the known world. Some of his stories are incredible, really, he should write a book.

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                        • F Forogar

                          Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.

                          - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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                          His name was Hawking

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                          • F Forogar

                            Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.

                            - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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                            Those who helped to develop humanity such as Guttenberg, Alan Kay, Alan Turing, Marie Curie, Isaac Fleming, Arquimedes, Antonio Meucci, all arpanet researches, .... And on the other side Thanos, he plays in another hero league

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                            • F Forogar

                              Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.

                              - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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                              Gary Larson Douglas Adams Carl Sassenrath Dennis Ritchie Stanisław Lem

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                              • F Forogar

                                Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.

                                - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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                                Gary Larson Douglas Adams Carl Sassenrath Dennis Ritchie Stanisław Lem

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                                  I have many heroes. Here are my top 5 Johannes Gutenberg - Without him a book was un-affordable.:thumbsup: Aaron Swartz - A genius and hacktivist. Murdered by the US government. You will be missed.:rose: Alan Turing - A great mind and treated so wrong by the UK government. :(( Steven Hawking - The genius of all mankind and a great sense of humor. Big Bang Theory is not as funny without you. :-D Unknown - The inventor of the number zero, the basis of all computer code.:java:

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                                  Member 12837564 wrote:

                                  Johannes Gutenberg - Without him a book was un-affordable.:thumbsup: Aaron Swartz - A genius and hacktivist. Murdered by the US government. You will be missed.[Rose]

                                  Shame on me, I forgot to mention Gutenberg. Poor Aaron :rose:

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                                  • M Munchies_Matt

                                    He has also driven Triumph Bonnevilles around most of the known world. Some of his stories are incredible, really, he should write a book.

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                                    Maybe you can coerce him into it. Seems to be a good read.

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                                      I have many heroes. Here are my top 5 Johannes Gutenberg - Without him a book was un-affordable.:thumbsup: Aaron Swartz - A genius and hacktivist. Murdered by the US government. You will be missed.:rose: Alan Turing - A great mind and treated so wrong by the UK government. :(( Steven Hawking - The genius of all mankind and a great sense of humor. Big Bang Theory is not as funny without you. :-D Unknown - The inventor of the number zero, the basis of all computer code.:java:

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                                      the basis of all computer code

                                      The basis of all the computer code is 2. :-\

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                                      • M Marc Clifton

                                        I'm surprised nobody has said Chris Maunder & co. As tongue in check as that sounds, my life as a software developer has been significantly, and in positive ways, influenced by the existence of Code Project. While that can be said of many people (99% of them are dead), there's something to be said about a hero that is relevant.

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                                        Gary Wheeler
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                                        Add my vote to yours. Chris & Co. have performed an amazing job on a web site for a particularly unruly herd of cats.

                                        Software Zen: delete this;

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                                        • F Forogar

                                          Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.

                                          - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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                                          Gary Wheeler
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                                          Any combat veteran.

                                          Software Zen: delete this;

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