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Time Magazine Names Steve Jobs Among 20 Most Influential Americans of All Time

time all time 100 influentialTime yesterday released a list of the 20 most influential Americans of all time, with Apple founder Steve Jobs making the cut for inclusion in the list. Jobs is the final entry on the chronologically-sorted list that includes such figures as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Ford, and the Wright brothers.

Jobs was a visionary whose great genius was for design: he pushed and pushed to make the interface between computers and people elegant, simple and delightful. He always claimed his goal was to create products that were “insanely great.” Mission accomplished.

The new Time feature is part of a promotion for the publication's new book covering what it judges to be the 100 most influential people of all time, a list that also includes Jobs.

Time also releases annual lists of the world's most influential people, with Apple CEO Tim Cook and Jobs' biographer Walter Isaacson making the 2012 list back in April.

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kavika411 Avatar
185 months ago
Hold on, Time, I'm gonna let you finish, but Beyoncé is one of the most influential Americans of all time... OF ALL TIME!
Score: 31 Votes (Like | Disagree)
185 months ago
He deserves the title. 
Score: 18 Votes (Like | Disagree)
185 months ago
because gates isn't dead.

They may add him soon enough. The guy not only created one of the most successful companies in history, but he is also leading the charge in tackling global problems through his foundation.
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Sixtafoua Avatar
185 months ago
I agree, but if he is on the list..how is Gates not?
Because gates isn't dead.
Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Ping Guo Avatar
185 months ago
Ben Franklin doesn't make the list but Jobs does?

Edit: Neither do James Madison, writers like Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, and Hemingway, etc.
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
kdarling Avatar
185 months ago
Unbelievable. Clearly a bone thrown to today's kids.

Jobs belongs in an influential list for sure, but not within the top 20 of all time.

Might as well also put Ron Popeil in the top 20 list (at least he actually invented some of the stuff he sold).
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)