So AT, who's the brightest person you ever met in real life?

[QueBert]

Rapper Chino XL, before the ATOT gets on the usual fuck rappers and rappers are fucking morons. This dude's actually highly intelligent and a member of Mensa.

 

[alkemyst]

I would say my brother. Both of us have extremely high IQ's, but through my life's fate I haven't really been able to rise as high.

Along with working full-time building our Data Analytics / Big Data business for our company, he is holding a 4.0GPA at Harvard and was invited to be a teaching fellow a few weeks ago.

In 11 months while heavily travelling between Florida and Louisiana and handling the sale/transfer of ShreveNet to it's new parent company, he took down every Cisco CCNA/CCNP certification and earned a CISSP and CCIE. In three months, he took down CCIE Storage, EMC and NetApp's top certifications.

He can play multiple instruments and can read music quickly.

He also knows a ton on home/auto/electrical repairs and micro-electronics.

He was also an editor for quite a few technical publishers for a while.

 

[Gibsons]

You think Akroyd is intelligent? I've met him several times and each time I came away thinking he was a huge douche and a gigantic asshole.

Maybe I missed something.

Aykroyd believes in ghosts, for real. Major deduction there.

For me, I've met ~6 Nobel laureates, hard to say which one might be the brightest. It's not like I really know them.

Buddy of mine in grad school would be bright by anyone's standards though, EE degree in three years, just insanely good with math, could scan a paper in 30 seconds and understand it better than most. Made a huge mistake in grad school in changing projects, or else he might be famous, but that's hindsight. He did well anyway.

 

[Rudee]

I got to meet a guitarist named Guthrie Govan and speak with him freely for over 30 minutes, including personal instruction. Every word that came out of his mouth resonated with me. Extremely bright and gifted musician.