Feel the force
The Greatest Briton debate is hotting up. Glad to see I'm not the only one with strong views on this. My vote went to Isaac Newton (close one though, you can't fault Darwin and Churchill). However, having spent 3 years studying for a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Newton's three Laws of Motion are etched in my mind forever. A world-changer? Definitely. And just look at that hair!!
Thanks to Shawna Hogan for my Wish-List gift. Hope Shawna doesn't mind me quoting her:
Hopefully this book can teach you so you can pay it forward to the masses as you so brilliantly do with codestore.
Something that makes the three books I've received so far mean so much is that, of all the senders, I can find no record of them having emailed me or having ever asked anything of me on this site. Hence this is my only way of saying thanks. Aren't wish-lists brilliant!
In case you thought I was slacking, here's what I have planned next in the way of articles: a discussion (hows and whys) of using different HTTP stacks (IIS and Apache) in place of Domino's own.
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I'd have thought that Alan Turing (or Tommy Flowers, perhaps) would have rated a bit higher on your list, Jake, given what we folks do for a living and all. Being the inventor of the cat-flap and the milled-edge coin is important in some ways, I suppose, but gravity, inertia and accelleration were there all along, weren't they?
Agree about Isaac Newton - I did my degree in Maths and his work kept cropping up everywhere. I wish it hadn't, 'cos then I might have done a bit better than a third class... :-)
I'd probably vote for Colin Bruce Chapman or Julian Vereker, if I'd feel intitled to participate (as I don't, I just tell it to you).
Though I wonder if anyone else sharing our profession even knows about the two (don't waste Jake's webspace if you feel insulted by this assumption, rather tell me ... :-))
At least they both share one important property that should help a lot in being elected as important: They're both dead.
"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants"
Isaac Newton
One of my favourite quotes.
It's got to be Shake(speare).
You'll find his words in most of what we say and write.
Indeed, it has got to be Shakespeare.
Science is a relatively intuitive and inherently logical study.
The study and progression of language and expression is a real art.
I have a horrible feeling that Diana will be voted in though. Am I missing something here? How can anyone jusify her position in the top ten?