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by its_so_on 5169 days ago
The term "idea man" is a pejorative, and as someone who appreciates what Google became from being a handful of servers running a novel set of algorithms as described here:

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html (the original paper was actually longer)

I appreciate idea men in a way no one who uses the term "idea man" does or can.