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If like to turn it around and ask for examples of wildly people who DO okay well with others.

• pdpi 6y ago
  Fittingly, the article is all about Feynman’s comments on Wolfram. Feynman was himself insufferable in many ways, but also quite capable of playing well with others, being one of the archetypal examples of good teaching
• ozten 6y ago
  Andrew Ng in the field of machine learning - builds on top of and within the current scientific culture - credits others - humble despite huge contributions
• wombatmobile 6y ago
  Paul Erdős https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-mathematical-nomad-paul-erd%C5%91s-3163b70a2863 https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-mathematical-nomad-p... Over the years, Erdős accrued as much fame for his personality as he did for his mathematics. Described by his biographer Paul Hoffman as “probably the most eccentric mathematician in the world”, famously Erdős developed his only language to accompany his unique nomadic lifestyle, referring to himself as a PGOM, LD, AD, LD, CD, a “poor great old man, living dead, archaeological discovery, legally dead, counts dead”. Famously, possessions meant little Erdős, who carried most of his belongings in “two half-full suitcases” as he travelled from institution to institution, living with friends and colleagues.
• Barrin92 6y ago
  Von Neumann generally had a reputation for being jovial and humorous and good company, and he was without a doubt one of the brightest people of the last century. Edward Teller remarked: "von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us"