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Time Magazine: Man of the Millennium

MA Lloyd malloy00 at io.com
Wed Sep 23 06:34:07 EST 1998


On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Gerry Quinn wrote:

>>FWIW the most popular work playing this game is probably Michael H Hart's
>>The 100.  His ordering can of course be debated, but it isn't too bad; I
>>doubt you can make a decent case for anybody he hasn't put in the top 25.  
>>His entries in the top 25 that fall into this millenium are Newton, 
>>Gutenberg, Columbus, Einstein, Pasteur, Galileo, Darwin, Copernicus, 
>>Lavoisier, Watt, Faraday, Maxwell, and Luther.
>>
>
>What about Shakespeare??? That list is ridiculously biased toward 
>scientists.

He's much further down the list.  That makes sense really, science has
had more impact on society than literature.  And even if they were of
equal significance, while Shakespeare is probably the most important
figure in modern English literature, English isn't the only important
language.  I'd put the great composers higher, and even the major visual 
artists, though the latter are less universal.

-- MA Lloyd (malloy00 at io.com)




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