Perhaps, like mosts things in life, the truth lies somewhere between the perceived overstatements of Jobs' achievements and qualities and your "understanding".
I guess you're responding to the fact that I put "work" in quotes, but your comment comes off as unnecessarily snarky. My comment was brief, but I wasn't trying to denigrate Jobs achievements. I used the word "understanding" because I try not to speak categorically about people I don't know and events I didn't witness. Yes, Steve Jobs built a frequency counter when he was 12. But here's how Al Alcorn describes the 19 year old Jobs:
"I figured, this guy's gotta be cheap, man. He really doesn't have much skills at all," Alcorn remembers. "So I figured I'd hire him."
"Jobs never did a lick of engineering in his life. He had me snowed," Alcorn later recalled. "It took years before I figured out that he was getting Woz to 'come in the back door' and do all the work while he got the credit."
I didn't intend to come off as snarky and apologise if you feel in anyway aggrieved (you clearly do). I mere intended to point aout that things are never that black and white and often the truth can be found somewhere in-between.
