Rated by whom?
Besides, Edison lived into the early 20th century, dying in 1931 and
Jobs was born in 1955, only 24 years later.
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
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.
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> *From:* David H. Bailey <dhbailey52@comcast.net>
> *To:* iPad@yahoogroups.com
> *Sent:* Thursday, 16 February 2012, 12:43
> *Subject:* Re: [iPad] Curious
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> On 2/16/2012 6:21 AM, pabitra saha wrote:
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> > A man with the calibre of Steve Jobs is born once in 3 centuries.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Is he really more of a genius than Mozart or Beethoven or Picasso? I
> don't think so.
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> 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.
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> --
> David H. Bailey
> dhbailey@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
> <mailto:dhbailey%40davidbaileymusicstudio.com>
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