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Claude Shannon. Maybe rms.

Its not that we don't have genius anymore; we simply built a new pantheon out of the geniuses of the day about 150 years ago and then haven't been keeping up with the work of canonizing new members.

Dale Carnegie and Elon Musk get the "demi-god" status, somehow; we know their successes are the work of many others but who but the most obsessed know those names?

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Andrew Carnegie drowned half a town before he started building libraries. Drowned as in a lot of people died. For a country club for his rich friends. This still ranks among the top civil engineering disasters in history, over a century later. Don't scrimp on earthen dams, folks.

(the Carnegie library in my old neighborhood is a bar. I don't know if the town lowered the main roads or they built the library on a hill in town on purpose, but it sticks out like a pretentious, sore thumb now.)

Dale Carnegie wrote 'How to Win Friends and Influence People'. It's an enduring work, but did you perhaps mean the industrialist Andrew Carnegie?

Yes, thank you. Shows which is more important I guess.

Dale Carnegey changed the spelling of his name to match Andrew's.

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