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Jobs is not an engineer, inventor, or designer, but he is a visionary. He 
can see what is available, what protypes and interesting ideas are in the 
works, and shape those into something which is an inspired piece of 
technology which raises the bar, and is a commericial success. He drives 
his people with a religious fervor to outdo themselves and come up with 
something "insanely great". He done this over and over again. 

There is analogy with another genius. Before Einstein in the mid 1900's, 
for several hundred years, the word genius was always associated with one 
man - Isaac Newton - inventer of Calculus and modern physics. However, he 
actually didn't invent the ideas of limits, derivatives, or integrals. 
Those were being done a generation before. What he did was to look around 
at all the little things going on, and synthesize it all into a grand 
theory that we still study today. (The German mathematician Liebnitz 
independently developed much of the same but his name did not get 
elevated in the same way.)

What Gates does, is take something which someone else has already 
developed, and made successful, then try to buy it or steal it. Thats why 
Microsoft is always playing catch up, as is most of the PC hardware world 
maybe with the exception of a few like Sony which have a few new ideas.



>>he [Jobs] is on the record himself as saying that the best ideas
>>are stolen.
>
>Steel from one source you are a thief steal from everyone your a genius.