Michael Galpin

Robert: Think in the long term picture. Who was Time's Man of the Century? What is our reaction when we talk about Galileo, Picasso, Edison, and Watson? Celebrities come and go, but leaders, inventors, and visionaries stay for centuries. We will remember Bill Gates's name long after we have forgotten about Angelina Jolie. - Ben Parr

"Being smart is overvalued in our society" - s/read "Being smart is UNDER valued in our society" - Peter Dawson

"Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead" Robert Lynd - Dave Martin

I would take being smart over being Angelina. You are only looking at the immediate ramifications. being smart does not get you anything without the application of shrewdness. Society rewards beauty first, but eventually punishes it as well: Britney Spears syndrom, and Sharon Tate. The book "Accursed Share" deals with sacrifice. Great Brains are not necessarily beneficial to the human gene pool. - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ

Peter: My point is that there are millions of smart people who do nothing with their gifts. You can be smart, but it's worthless if you don't apply that strength to change lives, to change the world. - Ben Parr

No, I think Scoble is right. A lot more people have heard of Elvis Presley or Babe Ruth than Galileo, Picasso (artistic talent and intelligence are very different BTW), Edison, and Watson combined. Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods will be remembered much longer than Bill Gates. - Michael Galpin via twhirl

different forms of intelligence should complement one another. for example, being simply book smart exposes one's emotional intelligence, or lack thereof. it's how one channels that knowledge that counts. - Cee Bee

oh now your knocking Picasso? Einstein beat his wife Michael. Picasso was a genius that had nothing to do with the quality of his painting technique. - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ

Michael: Can you name an Olympian from the Greek era? Now can you name a Greek philosopher? You still make a great point, though - perhaps Jordan will be remembered far after Gates. - Ben Parr

chances are that Hercules, Achiles and the rest were great physical bodies Ben. Plato is nothing in name compared to Hercules. - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ

Noah: Now we get into religion, and there's nothing that can beat its value in society today. No person has had a greater impact on the modern era than Jesus of Nazareth. When someone is raised into the status of religious figure (like Hercules the son of a god and a human), they become nearly immortal as long as the human race still exists. - Ben Parr

I was working in a Psychologist's office (honest, I was working, not providing work) when I came across an article that discrimination against stupid people -- those of lower than average IQ -- was far too acceptable in our societies. Athletes, screen hogs, smart people, stupid people...who REALLY gets slighted the most? - MiniMage via NoiseRiver

Great idea: Warren Buffet's sentiment: to paraphrase: "I'd much rather be associated with people that use a higher quotient via work and application of their 150 horsepower brain capacity than someone who uses 20% of their 300 horsepower brain capacity...its much more appealing for various reasons". Its ironic some on here missed the point of your idea. - james svenson

Mohammad would of kicked Jesus's hippie ass. never the less. Helenism was a very long lasting religion. Time will tell when it comes to religious avatars. My religion doesn't depend on man. - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ

Disagree, Robert. Movie stars and sports are like the weather, info about them is ubiquitous and it is easy to have an opinion / speculate. It makes for lazy conversation, which in some ways is good in that it gets us talking to one another. It can even lead to more substantive conversation. That's really all they are to us. Easy conversation. That is why they fall so hard -- we really don't value them. Science, tech, politics, culture are still thing that matter very much and are highly valued -- just harder to have a lazy chat about. - Christian Anderson via fftogo

Pretty reliable for the past couple of weeks. - Mathew Ballard

Surprisingly reliable, plus the API's request limit has been raised to 100 / hr.. - embee

Twitter traffic is much lower on weekends anyways, a weekend outage would come from semi-scheduled maintenance that goes awry - Michael Galpin via twhirl

Must have been that recent funding from Amazon. - Michael Narciso via NoiseRiver

am i the only one who hasn't had a functioning "older" button for most of the past week? Any suggestions for a workaround would be welcome. - Virginia

I also noticed there's less Twitter traffic than on workdays. - imabonehead

yes it was... it is getting better. things change. - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ

That's good news! - Jay Martin

That is why I use friendfeed and plurk - Matt Rider

might be reliable, but at least @AmandaChapel isn't on friendfeed. it is so nice to be rid of her - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ