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    Who in the last 500 years will make the biggest impact on the next 500 years?

    JohnT nominated von Neumann and Turing. I nominated von Braun.

    How about you? Multiple nominations are accepted, but don't list a half dozen without comment.
    I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891
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    Actually, I changed my vote to Adam Smith if you recall.

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      OK, Adam Smith is a worthy nominee too. In fact, I agreed that he was one of the strongest candidates.
      I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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      • #4
        I'll go ahead and nominate Marx for this one for the obvious reason.
        I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
        - Justice Brett Kavanaugh

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        • #5
          I think Einstein who essentially fathered quantum mechanics even tho' he didn't completely buy it deserves mention as that paved the way for lasers, semiconductors/transistors et.al.
          "Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson

          “In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter

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          • #6
            Bill Gates
            “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
            - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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            • #7
              How about a guy like Stephen Hawking, especially if his work on a unified theory of physics is succesfully concluded, either by himself (unlikely) or by future generations of scientists.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
                Bill Gates
                Are you predicting that he will take over the world?
                I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
                - Justice Brett Kavanaugh

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                • #9
                  Isaac Newton.
                  There's no game in The Sims. It's not a game. It's like watching a tank of goldfishes and feed them occasionally. - Urban Ranger

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                  • #10
                    MarkG

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                    • #11
                      I'm wildly tempted to PM Ming and ask him to close this as a dulicate thread, but I'm not that mean.

                      ***and Ming, it's NOT duplicate.
                      Long time member @ Apolyton
                      Civilization player since the dawn of time

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                      • #12
                        Wernher "I shoot for the stars, but sometimes I hit London" von Braun

                        the sciences: Darwin - for adding dangerous amount of fuel to the religious fires that have been burning eternal.
                        politics/history: Nixon or Reagan - either one of them will be credited with the beginning of the end of the old times once the worker regains his rightful place. I can't nominate someone like FDR because he didn't invent any of those programs that he is so loved for--he just managed to get them put in place.
                        arts: Walt Disney - for being a major early player in the modern media business.

                        I'm forced to nominate some people I loathe, for they really do have more impact--one man can take society back by far more notches than one man can set it forward.
                        meet the new boss, same as the old boss

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                        • #13
                          Wernher "I shoot for the stars, but sometimes I hit London" von Braun
                          But when you think of space, who else is there? Even Goddard isn't of the same stature.
                          I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                          • #14
                            Ted Striker
                            We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

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                            • #15
                              Sorry, Ted, but Ron Jeremy beats you .
                              “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                              - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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