See, that I could buy. But every time I hear news reporters and interviews, they keep speaking of him as a visionary in the same breath as inventions and innovations and invoking the names of people such as Thomas Edison (which is ironic given he's best known for "inventing the light bulb" but it's been shown that he wasn't the first to invent it... but the first to patent it--but that's the image you're supposed to see).

He was an excellent business person and he knew that the general public needed a good artsy looking thing if they were to accept computers and electronics into their daily lives the way most tech saavy people already do. For that, he was indeed a business man and a great entrepreneur... but by no means an inventor or originator.