Comments on: Role Models http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/2009/12/13/role-models/ An Irishman's Fiery Tue, 17 May 2011 19:12:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: MikeD http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/2009/12/13/role-models/comment-page-1/#comment-319413 MikeD Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:03:59 +0000 http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/?p=553#comment-319413 Carl Sagan I've only read one of his books and that was "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" but I have watched many of his interviews and I have always felt that he was the kind of thinker, and doer, who didn't keep himself within artificial boundaries. Carl Sagan

I’ve only read one of his books and that was “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark” but I have watched many of his interviews and I have always felt that he was the kind of thinker, and doer, who didn’t keep himself within artificial boundaries.

]]> By: colmmacc http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/2009/12/13/role-models/comment-page-1/#comment-319345 colmmacc Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:00:30 +0000 http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/?p=553#comment-319345 I've read GEB by Hofstadster - but it didn't make a very strong impression. It's clear that the guy is clever, and I can see where he's going with the strange loop stuff, but the writing is eclectic and awful. There's a long list of people I thought about adding including; Orwell, Joyce, Douglas Adams, Alan Turing. I’ve read GEB by Hofstadster – but it didn’t make a very strong impression. It’s clear that the guy is clever, and I can see where he’s going with the strange loop stuff, but the writing is eclectic and awful.

There’s a long list of people I thought about adding including; Orwell, Joyce, Douglas Adams, Alan Turing.

]]> By: ompaul http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/2009/12/13/role-models/comment-page-1/#comment-319344 ompaul Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:57:16 +0000 http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/?p=553#comment-319344 Great photo. Four additional names you might want to include, Clive James for cultural works mostly Cultural Amnesia - Bryan Sykes for making genes accessible through anyone of his books on the subject - Diaro Fo for "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" - John Hersey Hiroshima - The first two in this list make my own list of things everyone should read. If I had to choose a fifth perhaps it would be Douglas R. Hofstadster. Great photo. Four additional names you might want to include, Clive James for cultural works mostly Cultural Amnesia – Bryan Sykes for making genes accessible through anyone of his books on the subject – Diaro Fo for “Accidental Death of an Anarchist” – John Hersey Hiroshima –
The first two in this list make my own list of things everyone should read. If I had to choose a fifth perhaps it would be Douglas R. Hofstadster.

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