The Ghost of RubangB said:
Ooh I like that one, but then who would be Socrates? Maybe Yokoi could be Socrates and Miyamoto could be Plato? Yokoi laid down the foundation, but we barely know anything about him and he never wrote anything down and there are only a few photos of him left, and most of his legacy was carried on by Miyamoto. What I meant by my Edison/Da Vinci comparison was that Yokoi was more of a Renaissance artist in that he worked on hardware, software, and even building his own toys, while Miyamoto's focus was only on software. And Yokoi's breakthroughs were in an earlier time when they couldn't have as much of an immediate cultural impact. The kids run out in the streets yelling "Mario! Mario!" instead of "D-Pad! D-Pad!" But Edison was pure evil so comparing him to Miyamoto is a bad joke. |
Well, we can't really be sure that Socrates said any of the stuff that Plato attributed to him, so I'm not sure that he enters into the equation. In terms of running a company and how important that is, Socrates might be represented in equal parts by Yamauchi and Iwata. Especially Yamauchi, I suppose.
I admit that when you made the Edison/Da Vinci comparison I immediately thought of The Simpsons.
