Re:Dump Linus, vote for the fathers of all nerds. (Score 1)

Preach on! I actually voted for Turing myself, seeing as the transistor can't necessarily be attributed to ONE inventor...but my line of reasoning was almost EXACTLY yours... Not to mention the effect that the transistor and modern computational theory had on the development of television, which, in my humble opinion, has had the greatest impact on culture than almost anything in history.. I couldn't believe that Turing wasn't even in the Top 20!