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Perelman Urged To Accept $1m Prize
krou writes "The Warm Home charity in St. Petersburg, Grigory Perelman's home-town, has urged the math genius and recluse to accept the $1m Millennium Prize for solving the Poincaré conjecture, and donate it to charities. Perelman has refused to accept the award, telling one reporter through the closed door of his flat, 'I have all I want,' and another who managed to call him on his mobile, 'You are disturbing me. I am picking mushrooms.'"
Maybe leave the guy alone like he wants?
Am I the only one who thinks this guy is getting off on all the attention he is getting by pretending to be a recluse who doesn't want any attention or money. If he had just taken the money the world would have forgotten about him by now.
You've never had the right to be left alone by whatever amount you would deem necessary, regardless of what government laws you think offer you some kind of pseudo-protection. At some point, this world requires interacting with others. Sometimes we have a choice. Perelman made his when he solved the problem. He should have kept his mouth shut if he was so concerted with privacy.
Turning to a Linux advocate for thoughts on Microsoft is like asking Hitler how he felt about the Jews.
"...people were attacking ALL upper class simply because they were rich, not because they had done wrong."
You're either poor but overly optimistic about your prospects, poor but subservient, or rich.
People don't get rich by being kind to others, and there is no type of person they like more than a person who smiles and stands aside while they take their plunder.
Trickle down economics is the theory that if we allow the biggest landowners to have even more land, somehow, the rest of us will also be able to have more land too. Unbelievable to some, yet I am sure you have no problem believing it at all.