Why? This statement is certainly true.<p>You can expand the range of people with any plausible contribution until it&#x27;s not, but doing so would be an ideological exercise at best.<p>Von Neumann, Shannon, Turing, Weiner, Hopper and many more, on through Wozniak, Torvalds, I could go on and on.  There&#x27;s nothing wrong with calling extraordinary intellect what it is.