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DIED. FLIP WILSON, 64, caricaturist; of liver cancer; in Malibu, Calif. Creator of such pop cultural icons as Geraldine--the proud, sassy black woman who warned admirers that "What you see is what you get!"--Wilson was the first African-American entertainer to host a variety show. His goofy, outlandish style of humor was defiantly nonpolitical. "Funny is not a color," he said. "My main point is to be funny. If I can slip a message in there, fine...
Jobs is, in a sense, the anti-Gates: a master of hardware, not software; a trailblazer, not a follower; a creator, not a cloner; an iconoclast, not a consolidator of industry standards...
...creator of the 747, Trippe gave us the world's traveling machine. I launched Virgin Atlantic in June 1984 with 747s at the point when it was really shrinking the world and air travel was truly democratized, as Trippe intended...
Like many of America's great entrepreneurs, Kroc was not a creator--convenience food already existed in many forms, from Howard Johnson's to White Castle--but he had the cunning ability to grasp a concept with all its complexities and implement it in the best possible way. And that's as American as a cheeseburger...
Scott Adams is the creator of Dilbert, author of The Joy of Work and an executive producer of the forthcoming Dilbert animated TV series