Who's the smartest person you know (that isn't yourself)?

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

I'm pretty smart.

But my best friend is really smart. The kind of guy who can tell you what color shirt you were wearing when you said *quotes you exactly* to that one chick he remembers the name of, twenty years ago in another city you were both visiting on vacation.
He's an entomologist, but is broadly educated regarding the sciences, especially physics. The sky is indeed blue, but he could argue you successfully into having to agree that it's green. But he's not a genius.

My neurologist definitely is, he's younger than both of us by twenty years but he's the smartest person I've ever met, just intimidatingly smart.
He knows not just a little about everything, he knows enough to present a solid lecture about everything.
And he doesn't even lift. But holy shit, talk to the guy for five minutes and you'd see what I mean, he's genius level without trying.

What you got?

 

[Jack Stevonovich]

probably @IloveTHIS

 

[FighterTwister]

Who's the smartest person you know (that isn't yourself)?

I'm pretty smart.

But my best friend is really smart. The kind of guy who can tell you what color shirt you were wearing when you said *quotes you exactly* to that one chick he remembers the name of, twenty years ago in another city you were both visiting on vacation.
He's an entomologist, but is broadly educated regarding the sciences, especially physics. The sky is indeed blue, but he could argue you successfully into having to agree that it's green. But he's not a genius.

My neurologist definitely is, he's younger than both of us by twenty years but he's the smartest person I've ever met, just intimidatingly smart.
He knows not just a little about everything, he knows enough to present a solid lecture about everything.
And he doesn't even lift. But holy shit, talk to the guy for five minutes and you'd see what I mean, he's genius level without trying.

What you got?

My .... "WIFE" .......



OR

 

[neverwas]

I work in medicine, I know for a fact that just because a doctor can make an argument about anything and everything last for 20 minutes, when it comes to doing anything practical, they're fucking useless.

 

[Clippy]

I saw a seagull steal someone's bagel in a parkinglot

 

[I Am Legion]

My Dad when he was alive. Could have a conversation about anything. Physics to woodworking.

 

[RetiredSlave]

I dont consider any humans including myself all that smart. Within our cruel nose pickin', shit slingin' limits though probably an aunt who recovered from aneurysm, had to relearn as if a newborn and still knew more than anyone in the room.

I know tonnes of go getters though, and people that grab life by the nuts and create their desired realities are the top of our capabilities in my book.

Outside personally known people its hard to say since most famous people are specialists.

Creators are intelligent, people that remember everything just have good memories. Not mutually exclusive but seldom found in one package in my experience.

 

[Shawn91111]

My dad, because he can bullshit so much and talk for so long you think he either knows what he is talking about or you end up just forgetting what the hell the subject was.

 

[Chomsky Honk]

My old physical chemistry professor

that shit’s way too hard

 

[loisestrad]

Ken Jennings.

 

[bigkick]

I work in academia and am around people who have devoted themselves to learning a lot about very specialized subjects. I admire their commitment but don't think many of us are particularly smart. I'm on the liberal arts side, so I will admit that people working in math, engineering, and the hard sciences have some impressive skills. But as a softie, the people I most admire are successful artists.

 

[Hans Gercmiov]

My oldest friend I literally grew up with in the same household. Everyone I'm associated with always comments on how intelligent I am, and I do get deep off into some pretty intense subjects, but this guy, once he gets on a subject he tears it apart. Lost touch the last couple years, last I heard he was running some kind of IT department for some security company or some shit that's beyond me without even having graduated high school. All self-taught.

 

[Mike]

Probably my best friend. We have pretty similar personalities and backgrounds but he's definitely smarter than I am.

 

[Zach]

I went to school with the guy that invented robotic stereo vision in the 1990’s. This gave the robot depth perception and it could navigate a room without a preprogrammed path.

 

[Iroh]

Maybe my grandma. She is 95 but still extremely sharp, observant and talkative.

 

[Chesten_Hesten]

I mostly hangout here, so I'm not sure. Is this a trick question?

 

[Blowing Dixie]

I work with some MENSA-level people. Like they have taken the test and everything.. To be honest I don't find them to be that much smarter though. They're faster at reaching their conclusions but that's about it.

 

[Cpt Migraine]

I got a friend that became the youngest ceo ever of a bank noted on the stock market.. graduated the royal technical university as a theoretical physisist.. he is the smartest man in the room even when he's with his class mates..

Objectively he should be the smartest one i know..

It doesn't necessarily shine through in everyday conversations but i suppose it would become apperent if i dealt with him in a professional enviroment.. i don't know.. i know some successful people and i'm actually not that impressed.. solving a mathematical problem doesn't really transfer that well into understanding how the world itself works..

 

[Shaungotti]

My cousin, although he somehow has a terrible short-term memory.

I remember him saying things like "it's clinically proven" when we were 8. Lol

 

[HARRISON_3]

Cuba Gooding Jr.