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Dec 01, 09 - 12:04 am Comment from: chabig

Hillary Clinton!?

Dec 01, 09 - 12:04 am Comment from: Rhomboid

If Hillary were so smart, how come she got suckered into a position of total uselessness?

Who are these first two guys? Seriously.

Dec 01, 09 - 12:11 am Comment from: TowerTone

Again, Hilary?

Yes, I know she is smart, but brilliant?

Dec 01, 09 - 12:20 am Comment from: G4Dualie

I'm shocked George Bush is not listed?

Where's Ballmer?

.

Dec 01, 09 - 12:26 am Comment from: Tiger Leopard

Karl Rove is a smart guy, but how hard is it to persuade a large mass of ignorant dumb asses?

…how much you want to bet that the majority of the comments here will be related to the political figures in the list?

Oh, and I too am amused that they had to combine two people to put ahead of Steve.

I just don't get hillary!!! I mean smartest people. I think there are a few astronauts, physicists etc. Steve Jobs, you can debate if you want but how does Hillary, Alles, Rove rate? cunning and smart are 2 different things.

Dec 01, 09 - 12:47 am Comment from: MrMcLargeHuge

Huffington? Truly? She's not even a real journalist.

Hillary? Where Conde Rice????? Oh my

Hillary is the fourth smartest person of the decade. really? REALLY? How so? anyone.....anyone? I didn't think so.

Is she smart for staying with her cheating husband? Maybe. She claimed she had no idea he was cheating on her. After about 2000 women claimed they had sex with him, she was still clueless......I guess that's smart, right?

She couldn't win her campaign, yet she's on the list and the person who beat her is not. HMMMMMMM.

Dec 01, 09 - 01:04 am Comment from: Steveeee

@ bon
Ballmer is the smartest people of the world. Please let his shareholders and directors believe this and let the "brightest" man on this planet to run MS as long as it could...... um, until it hit the rock.

Dec 01, 09 - 01:23 am Comment from: m159

Karl Rove. Other than a penchant for calling things what they are not, he likely needs help tying his shoe laces

@ Tiger Leopard
LOL...Well said. Bravo!

Dec 01, 09 - 01:28 am Comment from: ron

Shrillary Clingon - Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

So smart she can't keep her Billy home.

Dec 01, 09 - 01:37 am Comment from: Macanatic

Hillary??

I know this comment's been made already, but honestly...

Dec 01, 09 - 01:43 am Comment from: ken1w

There 26 people on that list. The editors of the "The Daily Beast" are obviously not too smart.

@tigerleopard ; ha ha spot on!
And concerning Hillary, think about it, she had an enormous impact on Bill...

Dec 01, 09 - 02:25 am Comment from: Botvinnik

how remarkably ignorant,

To which decade does this article refer. The decade that we are currently in (the first decade of the twenty-first century) ends thirteen months from now.

Shouldn't this list be compiled one year from now? Most of those "smart people," to which this article refers, would agree with me. The twentieth century did not end on December 31, 1999 and the twenty-first century did not begin on January 1, 2000. The first year of a decade, century, or millennium ends with the number one. The last year of a decade, century, or millennium end with the number zero.

I guess that one of those smart people did not write the article.

Dec 01, 09 - 05:21 am Comment from: loloontheair

I am completely ignorant, I don't even know half of the list. 15 to be precise. I wonder how you can quantify smartness?
Especially in so different fields, a general, politician, advisors, business people, etc... . I bet those Daily beast people really impress me....

Dec 01, 09 - 05:28 am Comment from: The DataDude

@ DCJ001

I believe you are wrong. A decade is a period of ten years, regardless of when the period starts. The current decade (The "2000's") began on January 1, 2000 and will end on 12/31/2009.

Decades start on the zero's, i.e. 1950s 1960s 1970s etc...

Here's one of many sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000–2009

Right I think I know about 5 of those but I suppose the rest of the World isn't included.

Hillary Clinton?
Hillary Clinton????

Dec 01, 09 - 07:08 am Comment from: MacRaven

#4 Hillary Clinton

*snort*
Yeah, this list has credibility.
Now I know why I've never read that site and never will again.

There are plenty of smarter women than her that could have earned #4. I'd have understood if they put her husband at 4 more, though I think there are more deserving at 4 than either of them.

The whole list is a laugh, and #14 Arianna Huffington is a bigger joke than Hillary! Please.

List written by dummies.

It's a rounding error!


P.S. I EMO PC

The Clintons had an article in the 90s NY Times mag, where Hilary heard Bill was running for office and dumped her boyfriend for him. This was all in college, so I guess her plan DID get her to the white house.

Dec 01, 09 - 07:46 am Comment from: Hm...

So many electrons wasted on such drivel — both the original article and the juvenile postings...

Yes, I know she is smart, but brilliant?

I wouldn't say "smart" so much as "crafty".

Ranking her above Mohammed Yunus though, is just asinine. Yunus is a hero.

-jcr

Dec 01, 09 - 08:18 am Comment from: MidWest Mac

I could totally be Secretary of State.

I'm surprised too that our Glorious Leader, the Most Sublime President Barack Obama wasn't first on the list.
After all, he's Washington's Mr. Spock!
(snicker)

Dec 01, 09 - 09:09 am Comment from: Rob

Google founders #1??? Why? Any search engine would do the trick, they were just lucky, not innovative.

The smartest people were really all Americans?

Oh yeah, I forgot. The only real people in the world are Americans. I mean, no one really lives outside the US, right? Except for the Mongoloids.

Dec 01, 09 - 09:28 am Comment from: Dude

What no Sarah Palin? After all she is going to be a the next Reagan....

Suffice of to say I have little to no respect for the Republicans. And the Democrats? Equal amounts of contempt there too: in short, both suck.

Any search engine would do the trick, they were just lucky, not innovative.

That's not true. They had the insight to rank pages by the number of links to the page, instead of just counting keyword hits like Alta Vista had done. It's a lot harder to game their search algorithm.

-jcr

Dec 01, 09 - 09:41 am Comment from: KingMel

Where am I on this list? I must be in the second group of 25...

Dec 01, 09 - 09:58 am Comment from: Mac-nugget

These lists server no purpose. How does one measure intelligence. I would argue that the entire global economic crisis was actually engineered by extremely smart people. The same that are getting the big bucks to "fix things". You can use your intelligences for several things, and not all of them benefit biggest amount people. If you are really smart, you are the only one that benefits, and that is the problem.

My marketing guy used to have a plate frame on his Jag that read, "Liberals" on top, and "George Bush rules" on the bottom. The day Obama won the election, he removed it. Now, whenever Bush and the 'pubs are brought up, he refuses to talk about him, and even threatened to resign if I ever brought them up again. Too funny. Not that I couldn't find another marketing pro (this guy is pretty much just above average, but marketing guys are a dime a dozen and mostly have mediocre mentalities anyway), but I stopped bugging him about Bush and the great Republican fail since he seems to lose all motivation when it's brought up.

But back on topic... Steve should have been number 1. Period.

The list is a crock!

All Google does is search and ads... good, but otherwise I dont see why he should be #1

Dec 01, 09 - 11:29 am Comment from: m159

I've been told (by someone in a position to know) Google was Bill Campbell's idea after seeing what Page and Brin were working on.

Hillary dodged sniper bullets, remember?
And she don't feel no tired either!
Oh I bet she answered a lot of 3 AM calls all right.

Dec 01, 09 - 12:00 pm Comment from: MacAdvocate

It's getting to the point around MDN where any political angle there is to be shot has a 99% chance of getting called out in the first 5 comments. Seriously, people.

Dec 01, 09 - 12:24 pm Comment from: theloniousMac

All such lists are a crock, this one is just more garbage in particular.

It should just be "my list cause I like Macs and Google, and dried up old lesbian liberals that wouldn't give me the time of day unless I had a million dollars to donate to their campaign."

Who gives a shit what daily beast says or does. Who the hell are they, a zoo outfit.

21 to 23: the evil section

a seriously wonky flawed list.

"Larry Page and Sergey Brin"

That's not a smartest person, that's two people.

looks like the person who wrote the list wasn't very smart...