People worth emulating
- Alberti
- Lorenzo Medici
- Dale Carnegie: “responsibility assumption”
- Andrew Carnegie: “…the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding.”
- Danny Hillis
- Thomas Jefferson: One of the most important sponsors of the liberty I enjoy today.
- Steve Jobs
- Daniel Dennett
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Stephen Jay Gould
- H. L. Mencken
- George Lakoff: brings linguistic theory to laypeople in useful ways. Sometimes oversimplifies, especially about embodied cognition.