Couldn't resist this quotation about the revered SJ
Mark Ford To Jobs, the world is an epiphenomenon, a side effect of the existence of Steve. Or rather, it is a pyramid with Jobs at the top, a few bright people just beneath him, and then the rest of us -- the "bozos".
The customer bozo is not, to him, always right. In the early days it was said the Apple marketing department consisted of Jobs looking in his mirror and asking himself what he wanted.
His customer-relations motto is from Henry Ford: 'If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse.' In a world driven by technology, only the technocrats know what we want and need."
http://www.macrumors.com/2009/08/17/apple-attempts-to-suppress-steve-jobs-profile-article/