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Who cares if he’s arrogant? Linux is a mean bastard and Stallman is a weirdo who eats stuff of his feet during interviews. None of these people are well balanced great guys you’d take to the pub to watch football, but that’s not why their impressive in what they do and accomplish.

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Linus is mean, but aware of it and actively working on it. Stallman is harmlessly weird. Wolfram thinks he's the smartest person on the planet when he's objectively not.

You are correct in that these are not the reasons they are impressive. It's the reason (in Linus and Wolframs case) they aren't particularly good people.

You should have to suffer brilliant assholes.

> Wolfram thinks he's the smartest person on the planet when he's objectively not.

That was definitive. How is he objectively not? How are you defining the smartest person on the planet. By what criteria?

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