This is not a list of geniuses: It is a list of fairly smart misfits. Larry Summers and Larry Tribe are bright, but are both famous for arousing the enmity of colleagues. Bill Gates is a college drop-out who invented nothing, got rich by organizing and exploiting others, and only succeeded as a corporate dictator who could fire anyone he didn't like. Microsoft missed huge growth opportunities under Gates, and has lost billions because of lawsuits from enraged governments and competitors around the world. Kathleen Sullivan is a so-called "brilliant" lesbian who failed the California bar exam and had to get help from a man to write a constitutional law textbook. Need I say more?