I knew nothing about James Agee and what Let Us
Now Praise Famous Men was about (it was about poor sharecroppers
during the Depression, so an ironic title), but the phrase and author’s
name stuck with me.
- TerryRiley Responsible for the
minimalism/new tonality track in contemporary music
- JeromeBruner Chided Chomsky’s LAD
for failing to recognize LASS
- DorothyParker Poet, writer
1893-1967
- ReneDescartes Philosopher,
mathematician 1596-1650
- AndrewPlotkin Interactive fiction,
narrative game developer 1970-
- FerdinanddeLesseps Suez Canal
builder and father of 17, 1805-1894
- JohnSearle AI skeptic, promoter of
Chinese Room
- JaneAusten ‘A truth universally
acknowledged ..’
- ImmanuelKant Immensely ponderous,
but influential, systematic thinker 1724-1804
- DouglasHofstadter 「 Gödel,
Escher, and Bach 」author, analogist 1945-
- DanielDennett The dude flicking the
towel in the philosophy locker room 1942-2024
- DickFosbury Revolutionized the high
jump with the Fosbury flop
- MattGlassman Political gaming
thinker and inveterate “gambling degenerate”
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