Certainly an interesting guy, but there seems to be an almost 'god like' worship for him, with many people believing everything he did was wonderful.
Don't get me wrong, he did some great things, but he did a lot of non-working crap as well, yet many people seem to believe that the 'secret has been lost', and that everything he did really worked.
its interesting to me that he bothered spending so much time and money to patent his inventions while he kept (supposedly) saying that money and business success is not important to him. Weird!