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On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 06:28:55 GMT, Beast of Bourbon wrote about Re: Time Magazine: Man of the Millennium:
> My list of nominees, marked by glaring omissions and ridiculous inclusions <g>:
>
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>> Bronze: Jefferson
> Silver: Newton
> Gold: da Vinci
>> This wasn't easy...
>
Maybe my history is weak, I don't really know all that
much about the life of da Vinci.
But did he really have any -effect- on the world around
him?
He has always seemed to be a fascinating genius, and to
embody the knowledge of his time, but did anything he
did ever lead to other things in turn?
He strikes me as a synthecist; making fascinating
-applications- of knowledge as it existed in his time,
but he doesn't seem to have really advanced anything
-novel-, at least not in any influential way.
Kind of an ideal hero for Bill Gates, now that I
think about it...
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