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lapfog_1

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9. Jobs was one of the great "showmen" of the tech industry

Reply to Yavin4 (Reply #6)

Thu Nov 7, 2019, 11:47 AM

Nov 2019

And I've bought my fair share of Macs and Ipods and Iphones (but no Lisa or Newton... not everything Apple did was even decent).

I don't know if I am a true genius... in certain areas I have been acclaimed as such... and I have decent IQ scores and patents and grades. But then I've met true geniuses... and I've met both Jobs and Wozniak and Larry Ellison (Oracle)... and, while the latter group are very smart, they don't match up in the genius department with some of the true geniuses (Richard Feynman for example... I had the privilege of meeting him in 1988 just before he passed away).

No black turtlenecks... but I do wear jeans... mostly.

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