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Genuinely curious. Are there any examples, where a worthy achievement was made by a nice, agreeable, likeable person? Each achiever story I recall, is accompa
by zxienin 5y ago
Genuinely curious.
Are there any examples, where a worthy achievement was made by a nice, agreeable, likeable person?
Each achiever story I recall, is accompanied by how asshole the person is/was, to a set of folks.
- jasonwatkinspdx 5y agoThere are tons, they just don't tend to generate controversy, so they aren't talked about as much, or in the same way. But a simple example would be Einstein. Or in the field of CS, Turing was well liked by his collaborators as well, despite having some idiosyncrasies.
- AlanYx 5y agoEinstein actually isn't a particularly good example. His treatment of both his wives is fairly controversial, and a lot has been written about his alleged refusal to co-credit Mileva Marić on any of the work they collaborated on.
- robmusial 5y agoDon Knuth comes to mind.
- j7ake 5y agoJohn Bardeen
- scaryclam 5y agoSteve Wozniak
- tincholio 5y agoCheck out Richard Feynman, for example.