Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

[Higgenbotham]

List the most quoted living people in the world

AI Overview

There is no official global data tracking who is quoted the most. However, public figures with massive media coverage, global leaders, and prominent thinkers emerge as the most frequently quoted living people.

World Leaders and Politicians
Donald Trump: Frequently quoted across global news for his statements on policy, media, and politics.
Vladimir Putin: His speeches and commentary on international relations are widely cited by global media.
Pope Francis: His remarks on faith, social justice, and ethics are regularly quoted globally.
Narendra Modi: His addresses and social media statements are frequently referenced across South Asia and international platforms.

Tech Entrepreneurs and Public Intellectuals
Elon Musk: Widely quoted for his commentary on technology, business, space exploration, and future trends.
Noam Chomsky: Heavily cited and quoted in academic, political, and philosophical discourse.
Bill Gates: Frequently quoted regarding global health, technology, and climate change initiatives.

Cultural and Activist Figures
Malala Yousafzai: Her statements on education and women's rights are globally referenced.
Oprah Winfrey: Her media commentary and personal wisdom are staples in popular culture.

[Higgenbotham]

A big picture core conclusion is that over the past 80 years, what it takes to be a person of influence, whether it be in technology, government, media or any position of authority or responsibility is more and more wide ranging and random in terms of the person's qualifications to be there - to be supervising employees, to be offering advice to colleagues, to be running a major technology company, to have great wealth, to have the ability to make weapons of destruction, to be making decisions that affect large numbers of people, to be quoted, to be given public money, or whatever.

The third level knobs will be the ones that assure Sorites paradox.
They will never sit down since they never stood up for what should of been done.

Yes, you have summarized it correctly. Things erode, nobody recognizes it and one day the ruins are there all around you or, more accurately, your descendants - the ones that are left - and they have no idea what happened.

[Higgenbotham]

There's a corollary to this with regard to those who reach the point of recognition that a civilization is in decline. Since the point of recognition can, over the first few decades, be reached upon the realization that things have slowly deteriorated just below a particular person's unique threshold of comfort, the person who has recently reached this point will almost surely think that if we can just do (fill in the blank) that the decline can be reversed. It can't.

Examples of this might be: "Oh my God, look at Sleepy Joe Biden! He's senile and the border is being overrun! OMG, we're collapsing! If we can just get Donald Trump back in there we can make America great again." Or, "Oh my God, look at that idiot Trump! Barack and Joe handled Iran flawlessly and now that idiot has gone in there not even realizing the Strait of Hormuz can be closed! If that stays closed for much longer, the world economy can collapse, OMG! If we can just get Trump out of there, we can get back on track and save the world economy. We'll be back to the good old days in no time if Trump can be impeached and Gavin gets elected in '28."

[aedens]

Mark Twain ‘Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.’
Get hedged. I would consider in our zone 1977 punctuated it on that declination slope.
The few Academics seen it soon after had the actual sense to discuss we are only producing ditch diggers.
That exact date was also recorded. Makes that easy I do all the Wife paperwork so She can or is focused on the
service to the infirm and Widows in Her Group. I gave a brief to one and She could not process it given the levity
and suffering we are seeing in our area of His work.
I have limited Her to a few days as She is finally reading better material of consequences for the last half decade.
The only thing She regrets in my thought map of 47 years is Tactical training to survive the incoming effects
of the consequences unleashed on far to many. I will forward the recent elements in a way a thinking Soul must regard
since rights are from God and not the half wits still pissing in the well they draw from.

I got word one will not be returning to active duty as He was shot in Public Service to our Immediate Community.
I have seen to many good Men and Women disabled but still they serve.

[vincecate]

The US stock market is basically one big bet on AI at this point.
The Chinese model Kimi K3 was released Friday and is about as good as the US models and open source.
There are several other Chinese models like Deepseek V4 Pro GA, Qwen 3.8 Max
that should be released very soon and are also about as good as US models and open source (and so very cheap to run).
I think Anthropic and OpenAI are no longer trillion dollar companies. Don't see
how they can go public. So then OpenAI has no chance to give Oracle the $300 billion
they promised. So Oracle has spent real money building data centers but their customer
can not pay, so Oracle is in trouble. Microsoft was giving OpenAI money as an investment
that OpenAI then used on Microsoft's cloud, so Microsoft got revenue. This will stop.
Anyway, I think the bubble is about to go crashing down.