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Originally Posted by ilnjscb
Perhaps, just perhaps, there can be two smart people. Maybe not everything needs to be seen through the dimwitted lens of professional sports, where there is always a winner and a loser.
Dennis Ritchie was clearly a genius, though one who preferred corporate/academic structure to entrepreneurship. Steve Jobs was a genius also.
Though they both worked in technology and were very lucky to reach maturity in a time of technological disruption, they cannot be compared directly. They focused on very different goals.
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Ritchie made computers usable. Jobs made them beautiful. I works bet there are plenty of quotes from both admiring the contributions of the other.
I'm not a Mac fan myself since I prefer openness and standards, but that doesn't mean Steve Jobs wasn't brilliant at taking the geeky technologies of people like Richie and making them beautifully simple for everyone's use.