Ask YC: Who are YOUR heroes?

Post by TransientMuse » Sun, Apr 06, 2008, 2:05 AM UTC

edw519 wrote: post #37

Darmani wrote: post #17

Sorry, but I feel the one line limit changes this from a potentially interesting and insightful thread to an endless sea of lists of names. Richard Dawkins: I remember when I first saw the link to his documentary "The root of all evil?" on reddit. I was quickly enchanted by his ability to beautifully relate ideas and convey their wonder and simplicity. (Although I had heard of Richard Dawkings before, I didn't learn…

"Sorry, but I feel the one line limit changes this from a potentially interesting and insightful thread to an endless sea of lists of names." Or encourages you to be concise to keep the thread readable enough for working people taking 5 minutes breaks.

Post by bayareaguy » Sun, Apr 06, 2008, 7:21 AM UTC

as wrote: post #45

doubleplus wrote: post #34

Nietzsche David Foster Wallace Ted Kaczynski

Kaczynski - brilliant, misunderstood, and a psychopath. Anarcho-primitivism is a odd ideal for someone posting on a technology site.

Post by big-j » Sun, Apr 06, 2008, 8:50 AM UTC

xenoterracide wrote: post #3

Off the top of my head Linus Torvalds - Kernel Creator, and extremely smart. Richard Stallman - For creating gnu, and helping us all to be free erm... are fictional characters allowed?

Post by as » Sun, Apr 06, 2008, 4:22 PM UTC

bayareaguy wrote: post #63

as wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kaczynski - brilliant, misunderstood, and a psychopath. Anarcho-primitivism is a odd ideal for someone posting on a technology site.

Tell that to the families of the people here: http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/unabomber/victims... Kaczynski was just a dedicated psycho whose only hack was to show how hard it can be for society to deal with people like him. He may have dicked around with math a little but to call him "brilliant" is a mistake along the lines of Clarke's third law.