It's quite a shame that in society today, people know the name "Lady Gaga" but do not know that name Alan Turing.
The few times I've brought up his name and have carefully explained what he did and how he did it successfully to my unenlightened audience, you can see this brief spark of awe. The problem being that this flickers out quite quickly once the discussion is over as this name and topic will not be brought up again and is essentially trivial in nature due to it's irrelevance. How sad.
@MrRaindog A lot of great people didn't receive the credit they deserved because of some perceived "flaw". Alan Turing was a homosexual. John Monash (Australia's (and the Allies' ) greatest WWI general, with the possible exception of Canada's Arthur Currie) should have become Governor-General, but was overlooked because he had a long-running extra-marital affair. Some might say it was because he was a Jew, but Australia's first Australian-born GG was a Jew in Sir Isaac Isaacs.
Fucking nerd machines.
MrDebashishMohanty 7 months ago
Tom Paine is ranked after David Beckham, tells a lot about modern culture.
vaibhav1P 7 months ago
Too many modern fucking musicians in that top 100 list. Delete them please.
karnzkeltic 9 months ago 2
@karnzkeltic
I agree, it is absurd putting together men of great minds with rock and roll faded players. Boy George 60 places above James Clark Maxwell !!
What kind of an idiot did the classification ?!
Queen Mary in the list ?! haha!! absurd !
powerdriller10 6 months ago
I'm so sad that Eddy the Eagle didn't make the list.
brownsrd16 10 months ago
@ least as important as Churchill in winning WW2.
31428571J 1 year ago
It's quite a shame that in society today, people know the name "Lady Gaga" but do not know that name Alan Turing.
The few times I've brought up his name and have carefully explained what he did and how he did it successfully to my unenlightened audience, you can see this brief spark of awe. The problem being that this flickers out quite quickly once the discussion is over as this name and topic will not be brought up again and is essentially trivial in nature due to it's irrelevance. How sad.
MrRaindog 1 year ago 2
@MrRaindog A lot of great people didn't receive the credit they deserved because of some perceived "flaw". Alan Turing was a homosexual. John Monash (Australia's (and the Allies' ) greatest WWI general, with the possible exception of Canada's Arthur Currie) should have become Governor-General, but was overlooked because he had a long-running extra-marital affair. Some might say it was because he was a Jew, but Australia's first Australian-born GG was a Jew in Sir Isaac Isaacs.
malcfifty 1 year ago
Tony Blair, 67th: Gimme a break.
Jackthesmilingblack 1 year ago
A truly great person.
mabhekaphansi 1 year ago