Yeah, I'd agree with that assessment. I find him inspirational
enough a thinker that, while we certainly didn't name our
second son Noam Resnick *for* Chomsky, Chomsky did indeed provide
the inspiration for associating the name 'Noam' with the kind of
attributes we were looking for in a name, at the time.
("Noam", in Hebrew, derives from 'Naeem', meaning 'pleasant',
which we also liked -
something modern, non-biblical, and with positive connotations.)
On the other hand, claptrap like:
> AT&T was a monopoly for a time, that's why it could create
>things like the transistor, for example.
is simply ridiculous. AT&T's monopoly allowed Bell Labs
(Shockley, Bardeen,etc.) to invent the transistor??
How can people be so smart and so stupid all at the same time?
Question applied reflexively too - I wasted hours today
on stuff like that moronic spam....
Ron