JohnT
June 23, 2014, 2:43pm
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njtt:
Edison’s “genius” was primarily for ripping off the people who actually invented things, and taking the credit. Apart (I think) from the phonograph, hardly any of the inventions he claimed, and made money from, were based on original ideas of his own, although it may be true that it was he (and his staff) who turned them into commercially viable products. If anything, he was more like a psychopath than an autistic savant, a ruthless businessman good at manipulating people and manipulating his public image, precisely the sort of thing autistics can’t handle. (I am not saying he actually was a psychopath.)
:rolleyes:
Sounds exactly like Steve Jobs. What’s your opinion about him?
The_Second_Stone:
Hibbard
Hilbert. There’s a few other contenders that maybe should be considered: Gauss, Maxwell, Godel, and I’d add Georg Cantor, just because his big concept thinking can be explained in simple diagrams (and I’m shallow that way)