Who Most Influence History in the Last 500 Years?

[Lancer]

If you need info on who is who to make your decision it can be found in this thread:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=132760

As there were more than 24 entries I'll have to make 2 polls.

[Winston]

Re: Who Most Influence History in the Last 500 Years?

Well it's quite obvious it wasn't the guy who kept telling people to shape up and get their thread titles right.

[Lancer]

Looks ok to me...

[Lancer]

Huh, it didn't add the d.

[Riesstiu IV]

Adolf Hitler for tarnishing the image of a perfectly good name.

[Winston]

Originally posted by Lancer
Looks ok to me...

Tsk, tsk.

Anyway, I was torn between Martin Luther and Adam Smith. But I think at least in my neck of the woods, Luther was the more influential.

BTW, how many Washington's are strictly necessary to have on a poll such as this?

[Lancer]

"BTW, how many Washington's are strictly necessary to have on a poll such as this"

Don't you have anything else to do?

[Kidlicious]

I'm still not satisfied with those. I'll have to vote at another time.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Yeah I think Lenin and Marx are d1cks too.

[Winston]

Originally posted by Lancer
"BTW, how many Washington's are strictly necessary to have on a poll such as this"

Don't you have anything else to do?

Yes, but this is my lunch hour.

[Pekka]

from those losers?

maybe Newton. Has to be science guy anyway.

[Deity Dude]

Ricky Henderson??????? I hope we arent talking about the baseball player.

[Japher]

I'm reading this book, yeah I know Japher can Read?!!!, Anyway, it's called "MBA in a Box" and they start it of by talking about innovation. They say that innovation is not invention. Invention is making something to make something we do easier. Innovation is giving us the ability to do something we never thought we wanted to do.

While things like airplanes, computers, cell phones, etc. are great inventions, it is the innovation of an airline, the uses of computers, the convenience of the cell phones, that are the true innovation. Why should I care if we can fly? Who cares if something can add fast? etc... are questions we need to ask, and when I look at the Wright Brothers as influential with these questions in mind I think they are not so influential. Great inventors, yes, but not much of innovators.

I think Di Vinci was a great inventor, but how many of his inventions were actually used because of him?

All I am saying is that because someone came up with something, or was the first to do something, doesn't necessarily, in my book, make them influential. It would of been just as easy to put that plane on the fire and forget about it. We owe more to Howard Hughes for the influence flight has had on man over the past 100 years than we do to the Wright Bros.

I think all those leaders up there have a good shot at winning.

[Maquiladora]

Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
Adolf Hitler for tarnishing the image of a perfectly good name.

and moustache.

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
Yeah I think Lenin and Marx are d1cks too.

Why was Marx a dick?