Its been more than a month since my last post....usually i think out my article and ponder over what to write for atleast a week or so before subjecting my so loyal (dont know why!) readers to yet another worthless compilation of my thoughts...this time though i will just sit and type away while my instructor keeps blabbering away some crap about unit testing or something....
I just finished reading a compilation of Ayn Rands's early works...mainly short stories and plays written by her...that woman must've been something really...she came to the US from the Soviet at the age of 21 and she was unable to even speak english...12 years later she wrote The Fountainhead....i wouldnt the best ever book....but its right up there....so this compilation consists of the stories and plays she wrote as 'practice' before embarking on her self-chosen task of putting forth the philosophy of Objectivism....there is this most unique and amazing play titled "Think Twice"...unique because this is the only murder mystery ever written by Ayn Rand...amazing because...well just read it...please do...you'll find it in the The Early Ayn Rand by Piekhoff...
Sometimes i wonder if there are any John Galts and Howard Roark amongst us today...of course those two can exist only in theory...but is there someone who even comes close?....lets see...
Steve Jobs....but he stole from xerox....then maybe the xerox employee who actually made the first personal computer....
Bill Gates...he bought DOS....then maybe the programmer who wrote the first OS....
Lakshmi Mittal....hmm maybe...
Alex Ferguson....yep...pretty close i would say....except that the choice of work wouldnt agree with an objectivist....
any more you can think of?
7 comments:
It's not the line of work that makes an objectivist, but how he/she goes about doing it!
Bill Gates : he paid what was demanded for at that time for DOS. As in he engaged in fair trade.
Similarly there are others. Given that nobody might reach the levels of what John Galt did, but the essence is maintained.
hmmm...goood...god has already replied..as for mere MORTALS like us..keep blogging..Who is John Galt?
ha ha ha...if you have read atlas shrugged thats a good one adi...if you have not...then read it!
yes sir..I have read Atlas Shrugged..Nice book..
well...we often are so attracted to ppl outside the country so much tht we fail to look in our backyard...
how can one overlook the names od Rahul Dravid in such a setting?
coming closer....
I think Subodh can vie 4 a position also...
he he he ...good one ..
I havent read Atlas Shrugged, but if we are comparing people with Howard Roark..take a look at this guys profile.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Demaine
He is 26..and students have completed a phd under him!!!
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