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Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes?
One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings.
Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak.
Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Good question, for me it's Isaac Newton, Bob Dylan, and my 7th grade math teacher Mrs. Thyme.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yeah, there was a high school biology teacher, Mrs. Macartney, who made my high school days tolerable. I even got a chance to thank her, and tell her how much she meant to a bunch of us, before she succumbed to breast cancer last year.
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SeattleC++ wrote: succumbed to breast cancer last yea
Sorry to hear.
SeattleC++ wrote: I even got a chance to thank her, and tell her how much she meant to a bunch of us
That is awesome! I'm sure that lifted her spirits! 
I not sure what happen to my teacher, but she gave me an appreciation of mathematics (up until that point I disliked it) that lead me to the career I now enjoy. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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The true Turing or simply someone pretending to be him? 
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That's a rather mechanical response I think.
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Aye, 'twas pirated from a bot
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Hagar the Horrible. 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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OriginalGriff 
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I just knew someone would post that 
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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I have no heroes as far as I'm concerned...
We're all just people.
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FFS, Sander, who do you look up to?! I think once you said you admired your father. Then you answer the post with "My father is my hero".
Millenials... 
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Well, I guess I could make an exception for my parents.
They did pretty well for themselves and they've continued to support me for 31 years and counting...
If you can live with me for that long you're definitely a hero! 
But no hero in the "traditional" sense, like someone amazing somewhere that I look up to and that I'd love to meet.
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(party pooper mode)
Seriously, I don't think I have one; I am probably become blasé.
I always wondered when such or such people die will I go down in the street at the funerals ?
There are many people I admire (couple of my friends, one or two politicians), but not enough for a hero status.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: I always wondered when such or such people die will I go down in the street at the funerals ?
Exactly, like people crying because someone they never even met died, I can't imagine idolizing someone like that.
People know where they were and what they were doing when they heard Freddy Mercury died and they sat together with the family... Like he was just a singer!
Well, I guess he wasn't "just" a singer to those people (and he was more of an entertainer I guess, not a fan as you can see).
It's cool (and scary) that people like Freddy Mercury, or John Lennon, or Steve Jobs, can change lives by just being alive (or not), just not mine.
When it's an entertainer it's usually innocent enough, but the world's greatest mass murderers started out like that too.
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Forogar wrote: Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak.
Of course, Woz had little or nothing to do with iProducts so he can continue to reign as your hero.
Have you read his autobiography? I really enjoyed it and he reveals a lot that wasn't previously known (like the fact that Jobs was never fired from Apple. He was forced into a specific useless role but not fired. Jobs actually quit.)
iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It: Steve Wozniak, Gina Smith Amazon.com: Books[^]
It's a good fast read and you get quite a bit about the Apple originally came about.
Quite inspiring because he talks about creating things with less chips and drawing out computer circuit boards on paper.
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Daffy Duck[^]
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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I'm surprised nobody has said Chris Maunder & co.
As tongue in check as that sounds, my life as a software developer has been significantly, and in positive ways, influenced by the existence of Code Project. While that can be said of many people (99% of them are dead), there's something to be said about a hero that is relevant.
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Add my vote to yours. Chris & Co. have performed an amazing job on a web site for a particularly unruly herd of cats.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Of course! He, and they, get on my list.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: Excluding politics,
Indeed, it shouldn't be too hard to aim higher.
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Jesus, Batman and Obi Wan Kenobi
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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