He was a brilliant, intense, driven man who accomplished much in his life. That doesn’t make him perfect but he was a perfectionist with all that perfectionism entails, the good and the bad. He was not an ostentatious man, money was not what drove him. Making things that changed the world drove him, and making those things better.
He was not brilliant.He should have never married.Never forgave his father.Died an atheist.I prayed I would not become that famous that they would rip my life apart.May he rest in peace.
What was it that he designed again?
The more I look at Steve Jobs, the more I see a weird twisted man. One of his first money making schemes was to sell "blue boxes" (which he also didn't design or build himself) to steal long distance services from the Telephone company.
He was a "fruitetarian." He ate nothing but fruits and nuts and stuff. Way overloaded his pancreas with all that sugar. That's what killed him. Just another one of his weird ideas about life.
When I see Steve Jobs, I see a man that appears to have gotten a far better deal from life than he deserved, and far more credit for being "brilliant" (as if browbeating others to come up with innovative designs was "brilliant) than he deserves.
I have asked his fans to point out something, anything, that he did which can be regard as both "his" work, and brilliant. They generally come back with a vague "penumbra" of some sort of influence he had on others. Nothing really solid.
Woz, on the other hand, actually designed and built stuff.
He thought cauliflower could cure pancreatic cancer. I just cant get past that one. So smart in some ways, idiotic in others. kinda normal I guess.