gregmelander:

Malcolm Gladwell reviews Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. It suggests that Jobs was much more of a tweaker than an originator. He suggests that Jobs’ genius was making something better, not necessarily new.

“The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world. The tweaker inherits things as they are, and has to push and pull them toward some more nearly perfect solution. That is not a lesser task.”