On: D. J. Bernstein

[alec]

"You can't be the best without being influential in the field."

I think an appropriate analogy is judging an architect on the hammers he has improved instead of the buildings he has designed.

[antirez → alec]

I disagree, the buildings designed by Wright or Le Corbusier improved the field in many ways. They created a new architectonic system, it's like inventing a new programming language in some way.