The brilliant arrogance of Steve Jobs

A movie I particularly like is “Pirates of Silicon Valley” – a 1999 production about the history of Apple and Microsoft.

It touches on the personal lives of the creators of the two large companies of the 20th century, describing their human flaws and virtues.

In Pirates of Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs is portrayed as a drug-smoking hippie with temper tantrums; an emotional roller coaster that battles family problems, betrays friends and through his garage-based company attempts to take on the world.

This is the brilliant arrogance of Steve Jobs, his defiance of rules and regulations, his spiritual and physical methodology – partially human, partially machine – and the story of his eventual and justified success.

Through his tenure at Apple, Steve Jobs managed to identify the global need for specific types of technology and to create and deliver that technology, time and again, using the Apple wrapper he became famous for.

Unlike inventors and engineers, Steve Jobs was a visionary; instilling and creating the need for things that are far from necessary but not any less brilliant than the electric bulb or the phonograph.

Great minds shine through their vices, but deliver through their psyche and strength of vision.

Bon voyage, Steve.