Steve Jobs Crowned "Person of the Decade" 346
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longacre writes "Apple CEO Steve Jobs won over 30% of the vote in an online poll published by personal finance and investing news site SmartMoney.com, enough to earn their 'Person of the Decade' title by a solid margin over luminaries such as Warren Buffett (17%), Ben Bernanke (13%) and Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page (12%). From the article: 'Certainly, Jobs accomplished more than probably any other CEO since he returned to Apple in the late 1990s: Not only did he revive sales at the failing computer company, he led the stock to a more than 700% increase in value, and forever changed the way people buy and listen to music.'"
And he does a pretty good two step... (Score:5, Funny)
Not to mention his appearances on 'Dancing With the Stars' [youtube.com]
Oh wait, wrong Steve.
Never mind
Re:First decade of this millennium (Score:4, Funny)
INCORRECT! Year zero doesn't even enter into the question, because as we all know the current epoch started with the year 1970. Thus, decades in our epoch end with zeros.
I assume (Score:4, Funny)
Well... since we ARE talking time travel... (Score:4, Funny)
And there are very few of us who wouldn't want to take a time machine back to 2003 and buy a few thousand shares of GOOG.
I'd rather go to 1890 and get me a couple of shares of GOGH.
Vincent van, that is.
Well, if Steve was crowned -- (Score:2, Funny)
-- he'd be "King", not merely "Person" of the decade!
Voice: :"Well, I didn't vote for ya."
Other voice: "You don't "vote" for a King."
Ad infinitum/absurdum.
Re:Yes, but is he still an asshole? (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, that bothers me too, Jobs is a classic narcissist, and stock price shouldn't be the measure of a person's worth.
Yeah! You have to factor in how many shares they've got, too!
Re:Mohamed Atta or GW Bush (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Maybe the people that voted did so because... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:what seriously? (Score:1, Funny)
"I'm pretty sick of the ridiculous assertion that anybody who buys a mac is a hipster. I'm a CG artist."
lol, the utter fail in those two sentences is immense.
Not a hipster... I'm an artist.
LOL.
Yes, you're exactly the type of person that the GP was talking about. The problem is, what he forgot to add, is that people like you don't even see it.
Re:what seriously? (Score:3, Funny)
So my profession dictates everything about me, huh? Every person in the computer graphics industry is a hipster, every programmer or IT guy is a nerd, every manager is a pointy headed idiot, right? What does that make anonymous internet trolls?