> On Oct 16, 2011, at 10:57 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> I'm not sure I agree. Many people can dream and be creative, opportunity >> to bring it to fruition is more elusive. It is a mixture of character >> and >> circumstance. It is not certain that either Jobs or Ritchie, outside of >> the circumstances of their life, would have been so accomplished. > > You're weaseling. The facts are that both had ideas and both found ways > to bring them to fruition. The end.
I was not, "weaseling," I was addressing the general case as was argued in the emil prior to my response, i.e. giants who stand on the shoulders of giants, and thus none of the giants are actually giants. Obviously giants standing on the shoulders of giants can see further than the same number of dwarfs standing on the shoulders of other dwarfs. Yes, both had "ideas" some their own, and some the modification of the ideas of others (giants). The question is, and has always been, despite the digression, who contributed more to the industry as a whole. The guy who, in very general and simplistic terms, created the environment or a salesman who contributed to making it pretty? > > --Rich P. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
