Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!8t7BK9mzh7zpCENaBFN7rg.user.gioia.aioe.org.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Peter Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: Who is the greatest genius of all times ? Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:16:18 +0000 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <286582fe-aa75-431f-a101-ea60e6693094n@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 8t7BK9mzh7zpCENaBFN7rg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.5 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:11755 I I wrote: > Please choose: > > a) Steven Spielberg > b) Michael Jackson > c) Michael T. Weiss > d) Leonardo Dicaprio > e) Heinz Valk > f) Lennart Meri > g) George Bush > h) Donald Trump > i) Keanu Reeves > j) Tom Cruise > k) Kristjan Robam > l) Jarno Edur > m) Indrek Edur > n) Steven Frayne Two points: (a) "genius" is too vague a term for one to be able to answer any questions using it with much rigour. (b) "greatest of all times" makes little sense: time has not yet ended. -- When, once, reference was made to a statesman almost universally recognized as one of the villains of this century, in order to induce him to a negative judgment, he replied: "My situation is so different from his, that it is not for me to pass judgment". Ernst Specker on Paul Bernays