Some accomplish their goals; some do not. Some, in their quests or lifestyles, disregard the moral codes of man living for himself free of slavery to another.

Has there ever been a “Hero” sans “feet of a de minimus of clay”?

Do your best and recognize your faults within an objective moral code, but live your life to excel in the adventure of it.

As Apple found out, better to hire the creative prick than the corporatist bureaucrat. But then, that is not politically correct anymore; the creative obsessive is no longer wanted in large corporations, partly because of legal liability.

That anyone who replaced him didn’t have an iota of innovative sense is true. Think of what IBM did; for the PC it outsourced its hardware and software to no-nothings and bankrupted its own future. It could have owned Intel and Microsoft. It is beyond ironic that it was saved by decentralization by a corporate consultant!

Both Jobs and Gates stole the graphic interface and mouse from Xerox research, whose executives thought they were stupid. Emergence from existing unappreciated evolution is the way the world advances, just as a company buys cheap unproductive farmland and becomes rich by mining its the oil beneath it.