[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Everyone in the computer business — and most certainly Xerox (Xerox made high end word processors) knew about the GUI. None of them recognized the significance of it. In fact, most IT “experts” at the time were hostile to the idea — dismissing it as a toy. Jobs saw it for what it could do for computing “for the rest of us”. He took it from the lab rats at PARC, and turned it into a practical, functioning product that met the needs of the market.

You could compare Jobs to Christopher Columbus. Mariners knew for centuries that the “scientific consensus” was bogus — that the world was round not flat. None of them sailed off to “the ends of the world” on that knowledge. That's why there's a “Columbus” day.

[Strk321]

Which is a myth. People in Columbus’s time knew the world was round all right, but they grossly underestimated the size of it and assumed that Asia was the approximate distance from Europe that North America is.

[Jeff Chandler]

I see the myth of medieval scientists believing in a flat earth is still around.