Who's the smartest person you know?

[VetLegion]

I thought this would be an interesting question for you all.

Please avoid the "I look at him/her in the mirror every morning" joke, all else is kosher.

[BeBMan]

Re: Who's the smartest person you know?

Originally posted by VetLegion
Please avoid the "I look at him/her in the mirror every morning" joke, all else is kosher.

And you wonder that noone replies

[VetLegion]

I was kind of hoping someone knows a Nobel laureate or something

[BeBMan]

I could name some Uni-Profs nobody here will know

[VetLegion]

I could name some too, but how do you know if they are smart or not? I've never seen them solve a novel problem. They could be well trained chimps for all I know.

[BeBMan]

Ok, I assumed they were smart after I read stuff they wrote and after I saw them reacting to questions......

That's still not 100% proof that they aren't trained chimps of course

[VetLegion]

Yeah, but consider: they're mostly old farts and they teach well known subjects. You're studying ballet, right? Anyway, it's the same on every University. These chi... guys had eons to learn their thing, so they may appear smart but I don't buy it.

[BeBMan]

Ballet?

History and stuff

Well, IMO the best of them are fully aware of the "I'm an old fart sitting here for 30 years or so" prob, and they are honest about it, and they handle criticism and other view points very well. That's IMO a sign of being smart. Only the dumbasses think "hey I'm da big Prof-man, yo!"

[Jon Miller]

I know a Nobel laureate, Bill Philips (well, sorta, I see him a couple times a year max and have talked to him a couple times)

http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1997/index.html

and he is really really smart, don't know if he is the smartest person I know though...

Jon Miller

[Colonâ„¢]

Yo, I'm da big prof-man!

[Japher]

Asher. From what he tells me he's really smart

[Gangerolf]

MacGyver

[Arrian]

My best friend from college. He's currently working on his PhD in History at Brown. I may have met people who are smarter, but he's the smartest person I know. Second, although she'd dispute it, is my wife. Her intelligence is mostly routed in a different direction, though (math/comp sci, although when she took lib arts classes she more than held her own).

-Arrian

[Ecthy]

Know personally? I'm definitely ranking high up there. Then there are 2 flatmates of mine who are quite clever and successful beings. Apart from these 2, I'd say I'd have to look real hard to find someone more clever than me.

My uni profs aren't all that clever

Edit: Well there were one or two in my year group in school. That was back then.

[Japher]

Second, although she'd dispute it, is my wife

Good awnser.

Even if she's a complete moron...


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