What were Steve Jobs and Bill Gates if not "brilliant jerks?"

The diversity nazis are descending on Uber. And Uber, spineless, is falling all over itself to comply with their demands. Liane Hornsey, the company's senior vice president for human resources, has said that the company is trying to improve its work environment by eliminating "brilliant jerks" and "the cult of the individual."

The suggestion that Silicon Valley companies can achieve diversity by eliminating individualism would be chilling if it weren't so laughable. As for brilliant jerks, anyone who works in an engineering role in Silicon Valley knows that the brilliant jerks (also referred to as "prima donnas") are often the most important people in the company. In a startup would you rather have a team of brilliant jerks or a team that was racially diverse in the Eric Holder definition of racially diverse? In fact, you could even argue that the very definition of a Silicon Valley startup is: an aggregation of brilliant jerks. It is often their obstinate, eccentric, even aberrant way of seeing the world that founds entire new industries. What were Steve Jobs and Bill Gates (or, say, Vincent Van Gogh) if not brilliant jerks?

What is the Valley coming too?