Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...able to set trends, but it is never going to be left behind by them. The boss--and her son after her--would never allow it. Says the company's vice chairman Jeanette Wagner: "No matter how she aged in years, she was still the youngest thinker in the room...
...world pondered Gates and assumed he must be a great thinker. During World War II, Cargo Cults flourished on New Guinea and Melanesia: people who had never seen an airplane pondered incoming U.S. aircraft and assumed they must be divine. Technology is confusing, and these were reasonable guesses under the circumstances. In 1995 Gates published a book (co-authored with Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson) called The Road Ahead. Peering far into the future, he glimpsed a technology-rich dreamworld where you will be able to "watch Gone With the Wind," he wrote, "with your own face and voice replacing...
...books like Stephen Covey's The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, in which the banalities are broken down and presented as "steps" and "affirmations" and hence made easily digestible to the hungry hordes. Such books, in fact, seemed to be Gingrich's main source of inspiration as a thinker. He was mad for lists and jargon. In speeches and seminars he spoke of the triangle of American progress, the nine zones of creativity, the four great truths and--his personal favorite--the five pillars of American civilization. (For those taking notes, the five pillars are personal strength, history, entrepreneurial...
...Amartya has touched the intellectual lives of so many students and faculty at Harvard," said Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles in another statement. "It's wonderful that such a gracious teacher and illuminating thinker should be so honored...
...know if I see her as sexy. She starts off being part of the team and not being much of an individual thinker...