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Linus is mean, but aware of it and actively working on it. Stallman is harmlessly weird. Wolfram thinks he's the smartest person on the planet when he's objecti
by jhall1468 8y ago
Linus is mean, but aware of it and actively working on it. Stallman is harmlessly weird. Wolfram thinks he's the smartest person on the planet when he's objectively not.
You are correct in that these are not the reasons they are impressive. It's the reason (in Linus and Wolframs case) they aren't particularly good people.
You should have to suffer brilliant assholes.
- fooster 8y ago> Wolfram thinks he's the smartest person on the planet when he's objectively not. That was definitive. How is he objectively not? How are you defining the smartest person on the planet. By what criteria?