Perhaps the single most influential bit of scientific advice to a politician came when Einstein wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Aug. 2, 1939, warning him that Germany might be working on an atomic bomb and urging that the United States undertake a similar project.
This famous bit of idiocy was the standpoint on the female body and mind for the duration of Greek and Roman ancient civilization; it's famously quoted by Simone de Beauvoir as the most influential bit of female-as-corrupted-male thinking for thousands of years.
"It makes her look more influential, and bit by bit people began to think that they could benefit from their friendship with her".
Now, they use it in a contemporary way – we've been a little bit influential in that, and it's why we started the design arm of the business.
Influential work: "Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy," with Thomas S. Wurster (Harvard Business School Press, 1999).
But the spirit of the place has been every bit as influential.
(Even though the Fort Greene, Boerum Hill and Park Slope residents who flock to BAM Rose may be every bit as influential as their Manhattan counterparts).
The King James Bible of 1611, for instance, is every bit as influential as the greatest novelists of the past 300 years, from Austen to Waugh.
If it was Elvis Presley who became the most spectacular icon of 1950s rock'n'roll, the Everly Brothers created a musical legacy which was every bit as influential.
"Those players have had a huge influence on the culture here – I can tell you without hesitation that their contribution has been every bit as influential as anything I've done," the coach said this week.
