1. An important person who can code - for all those who moan that those in power do not understand tech at all. 2. He used C++ - for all the rust-tards and c++ haters 3. He mentions Haskell - for the fp buffs claiming it is the one true way.
http://leekuanyew.straitstimes.com/ST/chapter2.html
"Today, about two million trees have sprouted, and each is recorded in the NParks database."
The current prime minister was the son of a tea-seller, and not very highly educated.[2]
Who do most think is a better prime minister? The second. I believe faith in technocrats is misplaced, and wisdom does not equal technical competence.
Anyway, you raise a fair point with a solid counterexample.
http://www.dw.de/few-entrepreneurs-in-new-german-parliament/...
More than half are administrators (probably civil servants i think), teachers, lawyers.
So human politics is far more obviously powerful than science.
It's been a good-enough approximation for most of history, even though in practice it's completely wrong.
Politics is badly in need of a Copernican revolution which puts the physical world at the centre of politics, not the periphery.