As others have said, the Einstein comparison is absurd. Einstein was a genius, to be compared only with Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, and a few others.
Jobs was just an amazing businessman with a great vision.
As others have said, the Einstein comparison is absurd. Einstein was a genius, to be compared only with Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, and a few others.
Jobs was just an amazing businessman with a great vision.
So a genius in business cannot possibly be compared to a scientific genius? So we cannot compare Shakespeare either? Or Ghandi, or Mozart, etc, etc. Only scientific geniuses count in your world?
Don't get me wrong, I am not agreeing that Jobs was only a businessman, just expanding upon your position.
Not a well written review. And the lady has never played angry birds (quote: a game where you use a slingshot to fire at angry birds). Tell me if it has poetry. Tell me if it inspires.
So a genius in business cannot possibly be compared to a scientific genius? So we cannot compare Shakespeare either? Or Ghandi, or Mozart, etc, etc.
No, he cannot. Each accomplished individual should be celebrated in his own light. Comparison can be made when similar metrics can be applied.
Steve Jobs essentially had a view of how computers should be used and imposed that on his products. The mass market embraced that view.
Most people have no clue what Albert Einstein did, and can never understand even if they had 1000 years to learn. The math is simply beyond the capacity of 99.9% of humans.
Jobs altered our lifestyle.
Einstein changed and deepened our understanding of the universe, and therefore of life itself.
I recently finished reading Isaacson's biography of Einstein and I can tell you that the personalities of Jobs and Einstein were indeed remarkably similar. Both were iconoclasts who defied the reigning orthodoxies of their respective fields and relentlessly pursued a vision of reducing the highly complex to the elegantly simple. Also, both were primarily motivated by a love of their work and a deep belief in its potential to help mankind.
If you're really a fan of Steve & Apple you'll buy this book on iTunes and read it on one of your devices
This is one book that the best way to read it is the old fashion way, a real hardcover book. My iPad is for all other books that are not of this caliber.
Al was a big thinker. He had ideas, he had a vision, he made the impossible possible, yet others still had to work to make these ideas a reality because Al wasn't an engineer, wasn't a designer.
Ben, on the other hand, built his own inventions. That makes Ben a lot more like Woz than like Jobs.
So you know for sure that he didn`t know of Rudjer Boskovic...
This is one book that the best way to read it is the old fashion way, a real hardcover book. My iPad is for all other books that are not of this caliber.
Not a well written review. And the lady has never played angry birds (quote: a game where you use a slingshot to fire at angry birds). Tell me if it has poetry. Tell me if it inspires.
She's a smug NY film critic- actually liked The Phatom Menace. She knows what Angry Birds is- she's just trying to be wry.
Most people have no clue what Albert Einstein did, and can never understand even if they had 1000 years to learn. The math is simply beyond the capacity of 99.9% of humans.
In college I had a course in special and general relativity and was very frustrated that I couldn't fully grasp it, even though I am really good at math and physics. Years later I heard that, of all people on earth, only a few in each generation actually "understand" general relativity. So I do have a "clue," probably similar to you. Unless you are the 1/1,000,000,000 person who actually gets it!
But, I deny that there are no points of comparison between Einstein and others.
I would posit that Mr. Jobs was a genius magician transforming everyday items into extraordinary life transforming necessities. He took the ordinary and made it extraordinary. Thank you Steve for all of your gifts.
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Jobs was just an amazing businessman with a great vision.
As others have said, the Einstein comparison is absurd. Einstein was a genius, to be compared only with Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, and a few others.
Jobs was just an amazing businessman with a great vision.
So a genius in business cannot possibly be compared to a scientific genius? So we cannot compare Shakespeare either? Or Ghandi, or Mozart, etc, etc. Only scientific geniuses count in your world?
Don't get me wrong, I am not agreeing that Jobs was only a businessman, just expanding upon your position.
So true! I did preorderd the hard copy just to have it, I might never open it... I'm really going to read it from my i4s.
That's a lot of page flipping.
So a genius in business cannot possibly be compared to a scientific genius? So we cannot compare Shakespeare either? Or Ghandi, or Mozart, etc, etc.
No, he cannot. Each accomplished individual should be celebrated in his own light. Comparison can be made when similar metrics can be applied.
Steve Jobs essentially had a view of how computers should be used and imposed that on his products. The mass market embraced that view.
Most people have no clue what Albert Einstein did, and can never understand even if they had 1000 years to learn. The math is simply beyond the capacity of 99.9% of humans.
Jobs altered our lifestyle.
Einstein changed and deepened our understanding of the universe, and therefore of life itself.
How can the two be compared?
If you're really a fan of Steve & Apple you'll buy this book on iTunes and read it on one of your devices
This is one book that the best way to read it is the old fashion way, a real hardcover book. My iPad is for all other books that are not of this caliber.
I can easily see it the other way.
Al was a big thinker. He had ideas, he had a vision, he made the impossible possible, yet others still had to work to make these ideas a reality because Al wasn't an engineer, wasn't a designer.
Ben, on the other hand, built his own inventions. That makes Ben a lot more like Woz than like Jobs.
So you know for sure that he didn`t know of Rudjer Boskovic...
This is one book that the best way to read it is the old fashion way, a real hardcover book. My iPad is for all other books that are not of this caliber.
That's ludicrous.
But if I buy it on Kindle I get to read it on my Apple devices and then some.
Does that make me less of a fan?
Yes. But I'm right there with you.
That's ludicrous.
Not really. Even Capt. Picard had a few treasured books in print. The rest were on his PADD.
Not a well written review. And the lady has never played angry birds (quote: a game where you use a slingshot to fire at angry birds). Tell me if it has poetry. Tell me if it inspires.
She's a smug NY film critic- actually liked The Phatom Menace. She knows what Angry Birds is- she's just trying to be wry.
Most people have no clue what Albert Einstein did, and can never understand even if they had 1000 years to learn. The math is simply beyond the capacity of 99.9% of humans.
In college I had a course in special and general relativity and was very frustrated that I couldn't fully grasp it, even though I am really good at math and physics. Years later I heard that, of all people on earth, only a few in each generation actually "understand" general relativity. So I do have a "clue," probably similar to you. Unless you are the 1/1,000,000,000 person who actually gets it!
But, I deny that there are no points of comparison between Einstein and others.
You might want to add P.T. Barnum in that mix.
I would posit that Mr. Jobs was a genius magician transforming everyday items into extraordinary life transforming necessities. He took the ordinary and made it extraordinary. Thank you Steve for all of your gifts.
What about the People who are blind?? Does this book come in audio form?
Yes.
Filler.
You might want to add P.T. Barnum in that mix.
You say that like it's a bad thing.