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Why not Wozniak (probably still alive), or Shannon (I'd vote for him), Convey, Knut, Reed, Solomon, Thompson, Ritchie, Kernighan, etc? Why it is a CEO? Why Job
by pk-protect-ai 1y ago
Why not Wozniak (probably still alive), or Shannon (I'd vote for him), Convey, Knut, Reed, Solomon, Thompson, Ritchie, Kernighan, etc?
Why it is a CEO? Why Jobs and Edison?
It is just how it is...
- voidUpdate 1y agoI don't think you're allowed to have living people on a US coin
- crummy 1y agoguess they can make exceptions https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/03/business/trump-coin-treasurer-250-anniversary https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/03/business/trump-coin-treas...
- fabioborellini 1y agoHe is dead inside
- TowerTall 1y agoNot so much an exception but a work around according to the guardian newspaper [1]: [...] the law specifically says “no head and shoulders portrait or bust of any person, living or dead, and no portrait of a living person may be included in the design on the reverse of any coin “created to mark the US anniversary”. The proposed design features a wider illustration of Trump on the reverse side, a move that legal experts said would fall outside the ban on a “head and shoulders portrait or bust”. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/03/trump-coin-treasury https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/03/trump-coin-t...
- classified 1y ago[flagged]
- technothrasher 1y agoMeh, I'm already nauseated by In God We Trust on our currency anyway.
- decremental 1y ago[dead]
- butlike 1y agoOn the US Mint Site I was just looking at the 'Medals', where you CAN have a living person minted onto what they call a medal. Unsure of if it's the same size as a coin, but if it is, you could conceivably try and circulate the medals of living ex-presidents (to great cost to yourself).
- RobotToaster 1y agoThe main difference between a medal and a coin is that a coin has a face value issued by a country.
- marajason629 1y ago[dead]
- sparrish 1y agoThere is a law but there have been plenty of exceptions including President Calvin Coolidge on a 1926 half-dollar and Alabama Governor Thomas Kilby on a 1921 commemorative coin and Carter Glass on the 1936 Lynchburg Half Dollar.
- satiated_grue 1y agoNeil Armstrong (technically his spacesuit, presumably with him inside) was on the 2002 Ohio quarter.
- huflungdung 1y ago[dead]
- elif 1y agoEach state voted on its innovation.
- JKCalhoun 1y agoHad to consult an LLM about Kansas. I'm going to go with Clyde Vernon Cessna, George Washington Carver or Walter Chrysler.
- hirvi74 1y agoDolly Parton is the only person of value to ever come out my state (TN).
- groundzeros2015 1y agoGrim take on your family and neighbors.
- hirvi74 1y agoIf you had some of knowledge and experiences I have had, I would hope you would agree with me. Things have gotten better over the years, but there is a lot of dark and grim history.
- groundzeros2015 1y agoI don’t want to psychologize too much but when people have tough upbringing and then find a community in adulthood they tend to invert the morals and values of their upbringing.
- wqaatwt 1y agoWell Jobs repeated it ~3-4 times without Wozniak (and arguably being a part of making Apple II a huge success was not even his greatest achievement).
- hirvi74 1y agoWhat did Jobs actually build himself? My understanding was that man was technically inept.
- wqaatwt 1y agoProducts? I mean at the end of the day (as long as you consistently pick the right people/tools for the job) technical part is just an implementation detail.
- FredPret 1y agoSaying "no" to off-topic / dumb ideas in a consistent way is an amazing product development skill. It's like carving away all of the marble that doesn't look like David. Neal Stephenson wrote a really great Substack about art and how it's the end product of many small decisions. That's exactly what Jobs did on the hardware he worked on. https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/idea-having-is-not-art https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/idea-having-is-not-art
- hirvi74 1y agoFar enough, because I will even concede that after Jobs died, Apple has never been the same. Cook has been serviceable, but I haven't really been comparatively thrilled with anything to come out during his tenure.
- all2 1y agoTechnically inept is acceptable as long as he could communicate well. The man consistently had clear vision and the ability to communicate that vision to those who were around him.
- fujigawa 1y ago
- amelius 1y agoWhy not the inventors of the transistor? Anyway, at least I'm happy the Nobel prize committee isn't based in the US. Otherwise we'd soon see the Nobel prize for advertising.
- JKCalhoun 1y agoOr venture capital. I'm thinking Elizabeth Holmes should either be on a coin or get some kind of Nobel. (he said in jest) But seriously, Lee de Forest (Iowa or New York), Chester Carlson (Washington, New York), Charles Martin Hall (Ohio), Philo Farnsworth (Utah)…
- skeeter2020 1y agoWho? that's why they're not on a coin.
- kaladin-jasnah 1y agoThere are many inventions and people from AT&T Bell Labs that deserve their own coin.
- hirvi74 1y agoWasn't he a mega racist and eugenicist?
- amelius 1y agoMaybe, but that's the flip side of the coin ...
- edm0nd 1y agoI'd vote for a Stallman coin and its him eating his foot flesh
- vunderba 1y agoI'd love to see Wozniak up there. From Al Alcorn, a pivotal computer scientist and electrical engineer employed in the early days of Atari: "So, meanwhile, Steve’s friend Wozniak comes in the evenings. He would be out there during burn-in tests while these Tank games were on the production line, and he’d play Tank forever. I didn’t think much of it; I didn’t care. He was a cool guy. I found that what really had happened was that Jobs never designed a lick of anything in his life. He had Woz do it [redesign Breakout]. Woz did it in like 72 hours nonstop and all in his head. He got it down to 20 or 30 ICs [integrated circuits]. It was remarkable… a tour de force. It was so minimized, though, that nobody else could build it. Nobody could understand what Woz did but Woz. It was this brilliant piece of engineering, but it was just unproduceable. So the game sat around and languished in the lab."