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Printable 2Jay said: Why the fuck did Osama Bin Laden make the list? Aside from having the most stupid name in all of the technocolifiable world, he has not made any contributions at all. My
 Not to you. Regardless what you might believe, he did change the world in one day. Christian Zombie Vampires | |
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Genesia said: I'm happy to see Brian Eno get some love, too.
 Glad you pointed that out...I was gonna say... Christian Zombie Vampires | |
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superspaceboy said: 2Jay said: Why the fuck did Osama Bin Laden make the list? Aside from having the most stupid name in all of the technocolifiable world, he has not made any contributions at all. My
Not to you. Regardless what you might believe, he did change the world in one day. that doesnt make him a genius | |
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DevotedPuppy said:  No Marcel Duchamp?!? You can't include Hirst but not Duchamp...if it weren't for Duchamp, Hirst's "art" would just be animals in fermaldehyde.  This list sucks, even if Prince really is a genius.
The list is for living geniuses. Duchamp (a genius no doubt) died in 1968. | |
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NDRU said: Martin Scorsese
David Lynch Thomas Pynchon Yeah, I couldn't believe that hack Nicholson Baker was on there, but Pychon wasn't!!!!! This list is bs. | |
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Prince deserves it. "The Lion Sleeps Tonight... | |
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Prince is the sexiest geniuse on this list.   | |
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InsatiableCream said: superspaceboy said: Not to you. Regardless what you might believe, he did change the world in one day. that doesnt make him a genius not necessarily, but I will say that genius doesn't have to be good. But he found a way to hurt the most powerful country in the world using rhetoric & 20 plane tickets [Edited 10/29/07 16:25pm] My Legacy
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I DON'T SEE LENNY BRUCE,RICHARD PRYOR OR BILL HICKS!!!!!
THIS LIST BLOWS BIGTIME!!! | |
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NDRU said: InsatiableCream said: that doesnt make him a genius not necessarily, but I will say that genius doesn't have to be good. But he found a way to hurt the most powerful country in the world using rhetoric & 20 plane tickets [Edited 10/29/07 16:25pm] that's true. To come up with such an unthinkable diabolical plan...is evil genius. He is a real life Bond baddie. My art book: http://www.lulu.com/spotl...ecomicskid
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WHAT A BULLSHIT LIST!!!!
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emile57 said: I DON'T SEE LENNY BRUCE,RICHARD PRYOR OR BILL HICKS!!!!!
THIS LIST BLOWS BIGTIME!!! LIVING geniuses! My Legacy
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InsatiableCream said: superspaceboy said: Not to you. Regardless what you might believe, he did change the world in one day. that doesnt make him a genius It makes him something. I am sure to his people it makes him GOD. Remember these aren't just arbitrary names thrown out at random. He got nominated by more than one person. Christian Zombie Vampires | |
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ufoclub said: NDRU said: not necessarily, but I will say that genius doesn't have to be good. But he found a way to hurt the most powerful country in the world using rhetoric & 20 plane tickets [Edited 10/29/07 16:25pm] that's true. To come up with such an unthinkable diabolical plan...is evil genius. He is a real life Bond baddie. 
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What do they mean with genius?
The list is a very mixed bag and so many great people are missing and many shouldn't be on there at all... But I definitely think P has every right to be on such a list so congrats 
(How many of these silly lists are gonna be made?  )[Edited 10/29/07 16:43pm] | |
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VenusBlingBling said: What do they mean with genius?
The list is a very mixed bag and so many great people are missing and many shouldn't be on there at all... But I definitely think P has every right to be on such a list so congrats
(How many of these silly lists are gonna be made? )
[Edited 10/29/07 16:43pm] next: "The 100 Greatest Lists of All Time" My Legacy
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That's wonderful. Now he's up there with comparable geniuses like Stephen Hawking...Cool. But not that eye'd need the list 2 no it!  | |
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2Jay said: Why the fuck did Osama Bin Laden make the list? Aside from having the most stupid name in all of the technocolifiable world, he has not made any contributions at all. My
The reason Osama Bin Laden made the list is because 9/11 was brilliant. Evil, yes, but brilliant. The date, 911 sign of emergency. The targets, twin towers sign of business and wealth. Pentegon sign of military strength and the white house, the top of the political food chain. The last plane headed for the white house didn't make it because passegers and crew fought back. Osama had a plan that changed everything forever, hitting the US in one day at all of our icons of power. Now he can't be found. Disappeared into thin air. Brilliant, evil, heartless. | |
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Stupid list.
I love the Simpsons, but Matt Groening above Steven Hawking? Really? Like I said - stupid list. | |
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vman4639 said: Stupid list.
I love the Simpsons, but Matt Groening above Steven Hawking? Really? Like I said - stupid list. especially since he didn't exactly write & draw each episode My Legacy
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InsatiableCream said: Savage said: 43= Osama Bin Laden (Saudi) Islamicist 10 Now it has been proven!  I know that is very worrying indeed...!!
Its quite embarrassing its in a UK paper too, not something to be patted on the back for 9/11, what about all the lives that were taken(I know they are in Iraq every day too none of it is right) [Edited 10/29/07 18:00pm] | |
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2Jay said: Why the fuck did Osama Bin Laden make the list? Aside from having the most stupid name in all of the technocolifiable world, he has not made any contributions at all. My
Oh hell don't even get me started there! This man destroyed one of the most prominent landmarks 6 years ago, releasing videos regularly and he STILL can't be found?! I am NOT condoning his actions but only a genius could carry that off and STILL not yet been caught...
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Savage said: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/29/ngenius129.xml
We always said Prince was a genius! 1= Albert Hoffman (Swiss) Chemist 27 1= Tim Berners-Lee (British) Computer Scientist 27 3 George Soros (American) Investor & Philanthropist 25 4 Matt Groening (American) Satirist & Animator 24 5= Nelson Mandela (South African) Politician & Diplomat 23 5= Frederick Sanger (British) Chemist 23 7= Dario Fo (Italian) Writer & Dramatist 22 7= Steven Hawking (British) Physicist 22 9= Oscar Niemeyer (Brazilian) Architect 21 9= Philip Glass (American) Composer 21 9= Grigory Perelman (Russian) Mathematician 21 12= Andrew Wiles (British) Mathematician 20 12= Li Hongzhi (Chinese) Spiritual Leader 20 12= Ali Javan (Iranian) Engineer 20 15= Brian Eno (British) Composer 19 15= Damian Hirst (British) Artist 19 15= Daniel Tammet (British) Savant & Linguist 19 18 Nicholson Baker (American Writer 18 19 Daniel Barenboim (N/A) Musician 17 20= Robert Crumb (American) Artist 16 20= Richard Dawkins (British) Biologist and philosopher 16 20= Larry Page & Sergey Brin (American) Publishers 16 20= Rupert Murdoch (American) Publisher 16 20= Geoffrey Hill (British) Poet 16 25 Garry Kasparov (Russian) Chess Player 15 26= The Dalai Lama (Tibetan) Spiritual Leader 14 26= Steven Spielberg (American) Film maker 14 26= Hiroshi Ishiguro (Japanese) Roboticist 14 26= Robert Edwards (British) Pioneer of IVF treatment 14 26= Seamus Heaney (Irish) Poet 14 31 Harold Pinter (British) Writer & Dramatist 13 32= Flossie Wong-Staal (Chinese) Bio-technologist 12 32= Bobby Fischer (American) Chess Player 12 32= Prince (American) Musician 12 32= Henrik Gorecki (Polish) Composer 12 32= Avram Noam Chomski (American) Philosopher & linguist 12 32= Sebastian Thrun (German) Probabilistic roboticist 12 32= Nima Arkani Hamed (Canadian) Physicist 12 32= Margaret Turnbull (American) Astrobiologist 12 40= Elaine Pagels (American) Historian 11 40= Enrique Ostrea (Philippino) Pediatrics & neonatology 11 40= Gary Becker (American) Economist 11 43= Mohammed Ali (American) Boxer 10 43= Osama Bin Laden (Saudi) Islamicist 10 43= Bill Gates (American) Businessman 10 43= Philip Roth (American) Writer 10 43= James West (American) Invented the foil electrical microphone 10 43= Tuan Vo-Dinh (Vietnamese) Bio-Medical Scientist 10 49= Brian Wilson (American) Musician 9 49= Stevie Wonder (American) Singer songwriter 9 49= Vint Cerf (American) Computer scientist 9 49= Henry Kissinger (American) Diplomat and politician 9 49= Richard Branson (British) Publicist 9 49= Pardis Sabeti (Iranian) Biological anthropologist 9 49= Jon de Mol (Dutch) Television producer 9 49= Meryl Streep (American) Actress 9 49= Margaret Attwood (Canadian) Writer 9 58= Placido Domingo (Spanish) Singer 8 58= John Lasseter (American) Digital Animator 8 58= Shunpei Yamazaki (Japanese) Computer scientist & physicist 8 58= Jane Goodall (British) Ethologist & Anthropologist 8 58= Kirti Narayan Chaudhuri (Indian) Historian 8 58= John Goto (British) Photographer 8 58= Paul McCartney (British) Musician 8 58= Stephen King (American) Writer 8 58= Leonard Cohen (American) Poet & musician 8 67= Aretha Franklin (American) Musician 7 67= David Bowie (British) Musician 7 67= Emily Oster (American) Economist 7 67= Steve Wozniak (American) Engineer and co-founder of Apple Computers 7 67= Martin Cooper (American) Inventor of the cell phone 7 72= George Lucas (American) Film maker 6 72= Niles Rogers (American) Musician 6 72= Hans Zimmer (German) Composer 6 72= John Williams (American) Composer 6 72= Annette Baier (New Zealander) Philosopher 6 72= Dorothy Rowe (British) Psychologist 6 72= Ivan Marchuk (Ukrainian) Artist & sculptor 6 72= Robin Escovado (American) Composer 6 72= Mark Dean (American) Inventor & computer scientist 6 72= Rick Rubin (American) Musician & producer 6 72= Stan Lee (American) Publisher 6 83= David Warren (Australian) Engineer 5 83= Jon Fosse (Norwegian) Writer & dramatist 83= Gjertrud Schnackenberg (American) Poet 5 83= Graham Linehan (Irish) Writer & dramatist 5 83= JK Rowling (British) Writer 5 83= Ken Russell (British) Film maker 5 83= Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (Russian) Small arms designer 5 83= Erich Jarvis (American) Neurobiologist 5 91=. Chad Varah (British) Founder of Samaritans 4 91= Nicolas Hayek (Swiss) Businessman and founder of Swatch 4 91= Alastair Hannay (British) Philosopher 4 94= Patricia Bath (American) Ophthalmologist 94= Thomas A. Jackson (American) Aerospace engineer 3 94= Dolly Parton (American) Singer 3 94= Morissey (British) Singer 3 94= Michael Eavis (British) Organiser of Glastonbury 3 94= Ranulph Fiennes (British) Adventurer 3 100=. Quentin Tarantino (American) Filmmaker Now it has been proven! Congratulations Prince U've Always been #1 with me  | |
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maybe i missed him but i didnt see David Bowie on there. he's one of the most brilliant artists in the history of music  | |
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Okay,
while I'm well aware that I'm no where near being considered a genius in any catagory, I never would've imagined in my wildest dreams, that a list could be compiled with the names of Prince, Dolly Parton, Osama bin Laden, Stan Lee & yet not include me.  | |
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how the hell is Tarentino on there? His movies are anything but genius, sure they SOME have good story and characters etc but they aint genius!
Brian Wilson deserves more than that i mean the guy is practically deaf and he still manages to create some of the most rememerable music ever! I mean you could go up to practically anybody on the street and ask them to name 10 Beach Boys songs and they easily could, but i think a lot of the general public would find it hard to do that for Prince. Eitherway they both deserve to be on there! Receiving transmission from David Bowie's nipple antenna. Do you read me Lieutenant Bowie, I said do you read me...Lieutenant Bowie | |
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Any list of "geniuses" that includes McCartney over Dylan and Tarantino over Woody Allen isn't worth the paper it's printed on.  | |
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Riverpoet31 said: Aretha is a very great singer, but Brian Wilson was indeed a genious.
Aretha is the epitome of a living genius. She has created incredible art that includes three of the greatest albums in modern popular music (I Never Loved a Man, Soul, Live Gospel Album). She is a talented pianist. She has had enormous influence and worked in several genres (gospel, jazz, soul, rock). Her voice is pure brilliance with incredible range, tone and complexity. Her voice is one of the most complex instruments of the last 50 years. She has had enormous social influence. She is an icon due to her enormous and unmatchable talent. Artists are intimidated to work with her due to her level of talent. Unlike many of the artists on the list, her skill cannot be imitated. To question her genius is blasphemy. What ignorance. Brian Wilson a genius and Aretha not...pleeze. He was a very talented musician with one influential album, early success at stealing the Chuck Berry sound and a career of unfocused meanderings. But I would admit he is a living genius. | |
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Great news!
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