[javert]

So many of these remind me of Howard Roark, the architect in Ayn Rand's novel "The Fountainhead."

The idea of designing products for yourself, that YOU want, not for a committee and not for the masses - and of loyalty to the central idea of the product all the way through. The idea of a man who is religious about his work - but who is not actually religious. Building something in your own image - for Roark, it was actual buildings; for Jobs, as has been said, it was Apple.

[malkia]

A lot of the popular computer languages were designed rather by individual persons, or small teams, not comittes.

[charlieok]

in Jobs' case you could add a rather Appley looking building, too (when it's built, of course)