No we weren't -- you made a simple statement, that Steve Jobs was the
kind of person who only comes along once in 3 centuries. That was your
original posting that started this thread.
Now you're adding conditions to that message, after the fact.
But in any course it still doesn't make him the kind of person who only
comes along once in 3 centuries -- Henry Ford changed the way we do our
day to day activities far more than Steve Jobs ever did. So did Edison,
with all his electrical inventions which made people feel they needed to
have their houses wired for electricity so we could work in the dark
with electric light and we could heat ourselves with electric heaters.
So did Alexander Graham Bell, who finalized the work of lots of people
to allow us all to communicate across great distances. Steve Jobs did
no such thing.
And they were all well within a century of when Steve jobs came along --
I had lived my life quite well, thank you, before I ever used a Steve
Jobs creation, and even though I'm using one of his creations now I
could still function very well without it. He did nothing to change the
day to day activities of probably 95% of the planet's human inhabitants.
But I couldn't live my life without a car, which I know Henry Ford
didn't invent, but he democratized by devising the assembly line
production of cars, which amazingly hasn't really changed all that much
other than incorporating new technology along the way. And I couldn't
live my life without the telephone -- amazing that someone would think
that a person who merely came up with a different sort of telephone
would be more of a genius than the person who actually perfected the
telephone in the first place. And without the electric light our world
would be so vastly different -- nothing Steve Jobs invented comes even
close to having the same impact on people's lives that Edison's light
bulb did.
That hardly makes Steve Jobs a "once every 3 centuries" person.
David H. Bailey
On 2/17/2012 2:00 AM, Pabitra Saha wrote:
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> We are talking about innovators who changed the way we do our day to day
> activities. Including musicians and others would include comparisons
> beyond the topic of discussion.
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> On 16 Feb 2012, at 21:44, "David H. Bailey" <dhbailey52@comcast.net
> <mailto:dhbailey52@comcast.net>> wrote:
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>> Rated by whom?
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>> Besides, Edison lived into the early 20th century, dying in 1931 and
>> Jobs was born in 1955, only 24 years later.
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>> So where does the "every 3 centuries" calculation come into play?
>>
>> Just curious who set themselves up to be proclaimers of great genius to
>> the total exclusion of all else -- I would certainly put Bach and Mozart
>> and Beethoven in the same category of genius as da Vinci and Edison. :-)
>>
>> David H. Bailey
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>> On 2/16/2012 7:30 AM, pabitra saha wrote:
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>> > He is rated as in the class of Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Edison.
>> >
>> > *From:* David H. Bailey
>> <<mailto:dhbailey52%40comcast.net>dhbailey52@comcast.net
>> <mailto:dhbailey52@comcast.net>>
>> > *To:* <mailto:iPad%40yahoogroups.com>iPad@yahoogroups.com
>> <mailto:iPad@yahoogroups.com>
>> > *Sent:* Thursday, 16 February 2012, 12:43
>> > *Subject:* Re: [iPad] Curious
>> >
>> > On 2/16/2012 6:21 AM, pabitra saha wrote:
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > A man with the calibre of Steve Jobs is born once in 3 centuries.
>> > >
>> >
>> > C'mon now, that's a bit much. You mean that the discoverer of
>> > penicillin or a person who fought for human rights like Gandhi or King
>> > isn't of the same calibre as Steve Jobs? That's ludicrous, plain and
>> > simple.
>> >
>> > Is Steve Jobs more important than the person who invented the
>> > transistor, which is what makes all of Steve Jobs's creations possible?
>> > Is he more important than Einstein? Edison? Is the marketer of music
>> > more important than the creators of the music he markets?
>> >
>> > Is he really more of a genius than Mozart or Beethoven or Picasso? I
>> > don't think so.
>> >
>> > Steve Jobs had a great inventive mind, true, but hardly of the class of
>> > person who only comes along once in 3 centuries. Either that, or if we
>> > take the number of equally or more great people who have been born
>> > within the last century alone, this planet is in for a few millenia of
>> > non-geniuses, since the quota of "one every 3 centuries" has been used
>> > up for many such time periods to come, just from the 20th century. And
>> > then there's the 19th and 18th centuries to examine, where we'll also
>> > find people of equal genius.
>> >
>> > --
>> > David H. Bailey
>> >
>> <mailto:dhbailey%40davidbaileymusicstudio.com>dhbailey@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
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>> > <mailto:dhbailey%40davidbaileymusicstudio.com>
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>> --
>> David H. Bailey
>> <mailto:dhbailey%40davidbaileymusicstudio.com>dhbailey@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
>> <mailto:dhbailey@davidbaileymusicstudio.com>
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