who is the greatest intellect of our time?

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<p>Well, genius, hmm…hmmm…
Let’s see, how about someone that has generated billions of dollars, catering to one of the most important demographic in the world, children, and is considered God by those who idolize her?
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<p>J.K. Rowling!</p>

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<p>Terence Tao makes us all look like N0Oo0OoBs. He is truly amazing. :D</p>

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<p>Arron Spelling.</p>

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<p>This is an actual quote from Bush during a speech about the fiscal year:</p>

<p>“This morning my administration released the budget numbers for fiscal 2006. These budget numbers are not just estimates; these are the actual results for the fiscal year that ended February the 30th.”
-Bush</p>

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<p>Sarcasm Alert!!!</p>

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<p>I knew you were being sarcastic, I was just linking the two together because they are related.</p>

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<p>I think you sarcasticists need to get off the internets.</p>

<p>-What Bush might say if used “the Google” and stumbled upon this site.</p>

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<p>Hey I was about to ask the same question.</p>

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<p>Theodore Giesel, aka Dr. Seuss. Talk about American icon.</p>

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<p>Tom Hanks :D</p>

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<p>Charles Krauthammer</p>

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<p>With all the respect I hold to Terence, he hasn’t made any powerful discoveries in best field of world: physics.
So, without doubts, the winn’a is: Edward Witten.</p>

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<p>Haha lol, yes, Bush will use the google and find this site.</p>

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<p>Wow, where are the people here? IT has to be NOAM CHOMSKY.</p>

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<p>Noam Chomsky one of the more brilliant Commies - no doubt</p>

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<p>I’m gonna go with Amartya Sen. Well, at least for what I do…</p>

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<p>in chomsky’s defense, he’s actually a libertarian socialist.</p>

<p>To anwser the thread …</p>

<p>Our time as in our time - Milton Friedman</p>

<p>Our time as in still alive - Richard Dawkins</p>

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<p>YEs citation X he is a COMMIEEEEEE there are only 2 people in the world Conservatives and Commie teroristas, anything else is just “Spinning the truth” and “the spin stops here”.</p>

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<p>Saul Kripke.</p>

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<p>Its by far Chomsky… Even if you ignore his politics, his original field is linguistics… He’s really the greatest intellectual of our time.</p>

<p>But yeah, Richard Dawkins can give him a run for his money.</p>