I'm sure making the assembly instruction set was not an easy task. The instructions are small, but the simplicity and the beauty of keeping it simple is in itself a great accomplishment.

How floating points are represented in computers is such a neat hack, yet it can be done with a simple formula on pen and paper.

Doesn't mean you can come up with.

Everyone knows E= mc^2. It's easy, But you didn't come up with it.