Holly cow, no pressure but the people I know who think they are the smartest in the world didn't even make the list?
Just goes to show you that you may not be as smart as you think, in fact, studies show that one in five people suffer from some form of mental illness, think of four friends, if their OK, you are it!
On a side note:
July 14, 2008 · When the votes came in for Prospect magazine's list of the top 100 public intellectuals, at No. 1 was Turkish Sufi cleric Fethullah Gulen.
My buddy Noam was at No. 11 this year, and No. 1 in 2005. Here is the first 25:
1 Fethullah Gülen (*)
2 Muhammad Yunus (*)
3 Yusuf Al-Qaradawi (56)
4 Orhan Pamuk (54)
5 Aitzaz Ahsan (*)
6 Amr Khaled (*)
7 Abdolkarim Soroush (15)
8 Tariq Ramadan (58)
9 Mahmood Mamdani (*)
10 Shirin Ebadi (12)
11 Noam Chomsky (1)
12 Al Gore (*)
13 Bernard Lewis (34)
14 Umberto Eco (2)
15 Ayaan Hirsi Ali
16 Amartya Sen (8)
17 Fareed Zakaria (35)
18 Garry Kasparov (*)
19 Richard Dawkins (3)
20 Mario Vargas Llosa (29)
21 Lee Smolin (*)
22 Jürgen Habermas (7)
23 Salman Rushdie (10)
24 Sari Nusseibeh (65)
25 Slavoj Zizek (23)
To read more about this, read here: Prospect Magazine.
Or read about the story on NPR.
Find out more about smart people, and see what they are saying by looking some of them up on the good ole' interwebs!
You just might learn a thing or five!
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