Ritchie. Jobs made things pretty, which helped people enjoy using them (and he was fantastic at it). But the actual "work" at Apple was done by other people. This leads to the question of whether vision and direction (which Jobs provided in spades) should be counted as less important than technical acumen. I'm not going to answer this question - rather I'm going to point out that Ritchie, in addition to providing actual engineering savvy, also provided vision and direction (in spades) to the software and computing world. Whether you count Ritchie's technical + vision sum as greater or less than Jobs' marketing + vision + belligerently stealing other people's ideas and pretending they were his. (You can guess where I stand.)
-Dan On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:39 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Had a little debate, at work, about the importance of the work two men. > Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie. > > Who contributed more to the world and who created more wealth? We all know > who had more money, but who was more important? _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
