[bigbob]

Her article is not a hit piece against Jobs but makes some valid observations about what has been said about him.

Especially point #4: "Something absolutely fascinating to me about Steve is that Mona Simpson is his biological sister. If you don’t know who Mona Simpson is, take a look at the book “Anywhere But Here.” She is Steve Jobs’ sister and the book is just one of her wildly acclaimed novels. They have the same parents, but Steve was given up as an infant for adoption. And Mona was raised by her mom."

Follow the link for more on this aspect of his life which was news to me. Nature vs. Nurture.

[Da Coyote]

I’ll save the hit attacks for when Gates passes from this world into internal fire, damnation, blue screens of death, and incessent worms,viruses, and malbots.

Jobs = intellect.
Gates = sleezebag.

[brownsfan]

I was a serious PC hobbyist. I work in IT.

I never expected Apple to come back. I hated their locked down systems, and their high prices.

Apple almost went away without Jobs. Jobs also did quite well with Pixar. Not so much with NeXT, but, to quote the Meatloaf song, 2 out of 3 ain’t bad! (Did I really just quote Meatloaf? Ugh.)

Jobs was a genius. Jobs had an impact on the world, and I don’t mind people going over the top in their rememberances. The man passed, they’re sad, and it makes them and his fans feel better.

I wasn’t a fan, but I tip my cap to his genius, and achievements.

[drbuzzard]

>2. Individuals do not make history. Populations do.

This moronically puerile line is plenty enough that I won’t waste my time reading the rest. Individuals DO make history. Individuals do most everything of note. About the only noteworthy things crowds do is riot.

[Darkwolf377]

I am a big believer in the nature over nurture concept, but this article seems like a lot of resentment and sour grapes. The key point is `individuals don`t make history, populations do,` and this is utterly absurd. Liberlas love that concept, of course, but individuals MOVE populations to action, and are the flame that ignites the masses to action. That is what makes history. Without the individual spark, there is no history.

Nature creates the POSSIBILITY for genius or creativity.That alone shows that some people simply have `it` and others don`t, no matter how much they may desire that.

[JenB]

This whole article makes me feel stupid for having read it. How did the author both manage to say “it’s more important to raise your kids than to be a top CEO” and also “Steve Jobs proves that nature is more important than nurture” in the same piece?

And the “great man theory of history” may be passe to historians but I’m pretty sure most of the rest of us still take it seriously.

[cuban leaf]

Great article. It reminds me of the grade school mentality that most people have regarding Henry Ford - that he invented the automobile. What he did was apply the concept of the assembly line, which already existed, to the manufacture of cars, which already existed. And he applied it to a design that was inexpensive enough to enable the sale of the high volumes the assembly line produced.

If he didn’t do it, someone else would have. It is amazing what competition motivates people to do.

[Lockbox]

2. Individuals do not make history. Populations do.

So the correct phase would not be Bush = Hitler, but Bush = German?

What a crock of BS. Most people are sheep and need individual leaders.

And before you reply to tell me I'm wrong, do you think that the USA's problems today are not caused by Obama, but the fault of all the population of the USA, including YOU!

[MrEdd]

Kevin M. Ritchie, the computer genius who co-wrote Unix and who wrote the C language also died.

He really was the inventive genius that marketing geniuses Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have pretended to be.

[Dr. Sivana]

But the results of Steve and Mona show us that all this nurture stuff might be bunk.

Oh, good grief. Most mature people allow room for plenty of both, and in different degrees in different people. There are a dozen settings that Steve Jobs could have landed in that would have resulted him in being dead by 20, in jail or never developing his abilities to their potential.

"Sorry Steve, in this alternate universe you happened to come of age during the height of the Cultural Revolution under Chairman Mao. Your folks are making sure that you are going to grow rice, and that's all. There is no money to pay off the local poobah to get you in good with the party."

[piytar]

Respectfully, this article is little more than someone spewing why their “genius” hasn’t been recognized by the world like Jobs’ was...