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Re:Swedish Academy Won’t Award Nobel Prize in Literature Thi... by sametmax on Friday May 04, 2018 @08:26AM (#16993997)
> We praise Alan Turing even though he was just a mathematician.

A mathematician that changed the world to a huge degree. No actor or athlete performance drives the greatest innovations of today or wins wars. They are merely entertainers. Useful, but that's it.

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