Hall of Heroes

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.