10-06-2011, 08:51 PM
I think you have that the wrong way round.
I wouldn't say he was a good or even "goodish" man by any stretch of the imagination. You don't get to be that rich and powerful without stamping on lots of people, including (as you point out) your own family and the world's less-than-financially-well-off.
But he is a very big part of the reason Apple is the biggest company in the entire world--the adjective "great" is perfectly apt.
[Edison, since you mention him, was a scumbag who stole most of the inventions he's credited with. So perhaps you might want to lump Jobs alongside him after all
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I wouldn't say he was a good or even "goodish" man by any stretch of the imagination. You don't get to be that rich and powerful without stamping on lots of people, including (as you point out) your own family and the world's less-than-financially-well-off.
But he is a very big part of the reason Apple is the biggest company in the entire world--the adjective "great" is perfectly apt.
[Edison, since you mention him, was a scumbag who stole most of the inventions he's credited with. So perhaps you might want to lump Jobs alongside him after all
]
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."