Who looks at an ordinary lightbulb and sees a wireless data transmitter that could replace wi-fi? Who looks at a giant incinerator and sees an even more giant ski slope? Those aren't ordinary thoughts. They're not even different — they're downright weird. Jobs' genius lay in figuring out how to make things actually do what they were supposed to do, but inventors do something else. They make things do what they're not supposed to do — what's not even supposed to be possible.
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