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Old 10-25-2011, 01:00 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by miguel1626 View Post
Yeah, and he was just lucky to become a billionaire. (Oh, no, there's no luck involved - he "stole" the ideas.)

Come on, Jobs was no god (and not even a Thomas Edison), but to say that he added nothing to modern society is disingenuous at best. But no amount of evidence is going to convince you otherwise. Anti-Apple zealots are just as bad as Apple fanboys.
QFT. Whether or you call him an innovator, an inventor, a god, a carnival hawker or a thief; the fact of the matter is that someone who is "not special" doesn't create a multimillion dollar company (Apple), turn another company into a multimillion dollar company (Pixar), and then return to the original company, which was in dire financial straits, and turn it into a billion dollar company.

If anyone else on these boards has been able to accomplish even one of these things, then you may cast the first stone.

That being said, I have no interest in reading his biography. I learned all I need to know about Steve Jobs from the segment 60 Minutes aired about him the weekend after he died.
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