 Who changed your life?
nazgulnarsil: Eliezer Yudkowski, Robin Hanson, Nick Szabo, Paul Graham, Adam Smith, Ludwig Von Mises, a few dozen sci-fi authors.  I haven't met any of them.PG is probably the biggest since it was due to him saying "if you don't know how to code, learn to" that caused me to switch from mechanical engineering to CS.