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INTERVIEWER:
And with that movie 2001,
you're projecting us

into the 21st century.

I brought along
my son, Jonathan,

who, in the year 2001,
will be the same age
as I am now.

Maybe he will be
better adjusted
to this kind of world

that you're trying
to portray.

ARTHUR C. CLARKE:
The big difference,
when he grows up...

In fact, if we wanted
to wait until
the year 2001,

is that he will have,
in his own house,

not a computer
as big as this,

but at least a console

through which he can talk
to his friendly
local computer

and get all
the information he needs
for his everyday life,

like his bank statements,
his theater reservations,

all the information
you need

in the course of living
in a complex modern society.

This will be
in a compact form
in his own house.

He'll have
a television screen,

like these here,
and a keyboard,

and he'll talk
to the computer,
and get information from it.

And he'll take it
as much for granted
as we take the telephone.

I wonder, though,
what sort of a life

would it be like,
in social terms?

If our whole life is built
around the computer,

do we become
a computer-dependent society?

In some ways,
but they will also
enrich our society

because it will
make it possible for us

to live, really,
anywhere we like.

Any businessman and executive
could live almost
anywhere on Earth

and still do his business
through a device like this.

And this is a wonderful thing,
it means we won't have
to be stuck in cities.

We'll be able to
live out in the country,
or wherever we please.

HERTZFELD: Screen says
it's an unimplemented trap,

but the error code is wrong,
it's a system error.

JOANNA: So what's the upshot?
HERTZFELD: It's not
gonna say, "Hello."

STEVE". It absolutely is
gonna say "Hello."

HERTZFELD: It's nobody's
fault, it's a system error.

STEVE: You built
the voice demo.

The voice demo is flaky...
Keep your voices down.

I've been
telling you that for...
This thing is overbuilt.

It worked last night.

It worked
the night before that.
It worked three hours ago.

It's not working now,
so just skip over
the voice demo.

Fuck you.
Everything else is working.

Skip over the voice demo.

We need it to say, "Hello."

You're not hearing me,
it's not going
to say, "Hello."

Just fix it.

Fix it?
Yeah.

(LAUGHS SARCASTICALLY)

In 40 minutes?
Fix it.

I can't.
Who's the person
who can?

I'm the person who can,
and I can't.

How bad are you saying?
It's pretty bad.

I don't know
what that means.

It means the demo
is more than likely
gonna crash.

You have to keep
your voices down,

Joel Pforzheimer is
sitting out in the house.

I don't care if...

Who's Joel Pforzheimer?

GQ. He's been
shadowing you for a week,
did you notioe?

Just look like
everything's fine,

he's sitting out
in the house.

Hey.

What are you guys saying?

Some kind of race condition,
but we haven't been able
to track it down yet.

Is the synthesizer
sampling fast enough?

HERTZFELD: No,
so the rates are off,
and it keeps crashing.

JOANNA: It's 2O seconds out
of a two-hour launch,
why not just cut it?

We can't cut it.
Yeah, you just cut it.

Two days ago,
we ran a Super Bowl ad

that coulcfve won
the Oscar for
Best Short Film.

There are more people
who can tell you about the ad

than can tell you
who won the game.

I understand,
but the ad said the Mac:
was gonna save the world.

It didn't say it was
gonna say, "Hello."

CUNNINGHAM: We open
the house in five.

Don't open the house.

We're taking a quick break.

Part of the problem is,
we can recompile...
What?

...but if it's
a hardware problem,
we c:an't get into the back.

Why not?

Do you wanna tell her,
or should I?

Don't start with me, man.

Why can't he get
into the machine?

You need special tools.

What kind of special tools?
Just take a screwdriver.

He didn't want users
to be able to open it.

You need special tools.

Is this for real?

There are 1 O0 engineers
walking around here.
None of them have the tools?

HERTZFELD: In fairness,
not many of them
were issued the tools.

STEVE: What about you?

HERTZFELD: I left them
at the office,
it was 3:00 a.m. when I...

No!
Oh, Jesus Christ.
Cut "Hello."

What's the first
rule of a launch?

It's not gonna crash.

It just did.

Andy!

Which one?

The other Andy.
You're right there,
why would I be calling out?

He needs to talk to you.

CUNNINGHAM: Yeah.

STEVE: The exit signs
need to be off,

or we're not gonna
get a full blackout.

CUNNINGHAM: We've spoken
to the building manager

and the fire marshal.
And?

There's absolutely no way
they're gonna let us
turn the exit signs off.

I'll pay whatever
the fine is.

The fine is,
they're gonna come in
and tell everyone to leave.

You explained to
the fire marshal

that we're in here
changing the world?

I did, but unless we can
also change

the properties of fire,
he doesn't care.

Steve...

If a fire causes a stampede
to the unmarked exits,

it'll have been well worth it
for those who survive.

For those who don't, less so,
but still pretty good.

Look,LH
lneeditkagotflack.
Real black.

Get rid of the exit signs
and don't let me
know how you did it.

Fix the voice demo.

JOANNA: You need
special tools
to open the Mac?

STEVE: You knew it was
a closed system.

I didn't know literally.
Jesus.

And if you keep
alienating people
for no reason,

there's gonna be no one left
for it to say "Hello" to.

STEVE: It's not
for no reason.

We blow this, and IBM will
own the next 50 years
like a Batman villain.

Remember the phone company?

That's what Bell was called,
"the phone company."

IBM will be
the computer company.

Ten years later,
theyWlbe
the information company,

and that's very bad
for the human race.

So we don't have time
to be polite or realistic,

because if we are,
this company's next
product launch

will be held
in front of 26 people

and a stringer
from the Alameda
County Shoppers' Guide.

We haven't advertised
the voice software.

We could pull it
out of the demo,

and no one would
be disappointed.

Do you want to try
being reasonable,
just, you know,

see what it feels like?

Okay. Pull the voice demo.

Thank you.

And then cancel the launch.

CUNNINGHAM: I see.

You just tricked me
a little.

STEVE: You can tell me
how unimportant it is,

but if the computer
doesn't say, "Hello,"

then neither
will John Sculley,

who, I promise you,
agrees with me.

Sc:ulley's not
gonna cancel the launch
because he's not insane.

He's also not a hack,

and when it comes
to the Macintosh,

he's gonna do
what I ask him to do.

What's in this box?

Nothing you need
to worry about,
don't even open it.

STEVE: What the fuck?

Why is there a carton of...
Who did this?

Somebody thought...
Who?

Doesn't matter.

Thought it would be
a good idea

to have copies
of that Time cover

available at
everyone's seat.

It was nipped in the bud,
and all the copies

are being taken
out of the building,

so, problem solved.

This isn't a Macintosh.

I understand.

Somebody thought it
would be a good idea

to, like, enthusiastically
hand over copies of Time

with a not-a-Macintosh
on the cover

at the launch
of the Macintosh?

What are they handing out
at Hewlett-Packard?

A bushel of apples
with my face on them?

I'm sure the thinking was...
Yeah?

...that since the computer
is Man of the Year

that that's good
for our business,

but like I said,
I'm having them removed
from the building.

What I'd like you
to do with them

is to take them,
all 2,600 copies,

and stack them
on Kottke's desk,

and tell him Steve says,
"Happy New Year to you."

Okay.

I gave Time magazine
full access,
the whole campus.

Bandley, Apple ll, Lisa.
I gave him Sculley,
Markkula.

I gave him Woz,
I gave him everybody.

What should I call
the person who thought

it would be a good idea
to hand these out?

I'm not telling you
who it was.

It was done without malice,
it's been taken care of.

You have a half hour,
and we have things
to talk about.

Like what?

(SIGHS)

Like a million
in the first 90 days.

Joanna“.
20,000 a month
after that.

Look. Those are the forecasts.
I'm begging you.

Because this is my field,

I'm begging you
to manage
expectations out there.

I'm fanning expectations.

We're not gonna sell
a million in
the first 9O days.

Everyone, everyone, everyone.

Everyone is waiting
for the Mac.

Maybe.

But what happens
when they find out
that for $2,495,

there's nothing
you can do with it?

We were competitive
at $1,500,

but once you replaced
the Motorola 6809
with the 68000...

Which is what
supports menus, windows,

point and click,
high-res graphics...

Yeah, because
everyone needs rectangles
with rounded corners.

Coach lands on the runway
at the exact same time
as first class.

I don't have
the first fucking idea
what that means,

but this is how
it got to $2,500,

which is
the price point on the PC,
which can do a lot more!

STEVE: Who's gonna want a PC?

What idiot is gonna want...

If I wanna tell you
there's a spot

on your shirt,
I point to the spot.

I don't say there's a spot
14 centimeters down
from the collar

and three centimeters
to the right
of the second button,

while I try to remember
what the command
is for club soda.

That's not how
a person's mind works.

If the goal was ease of use,
maybe you should've
given it some memory.

You oan complain
about memory, or you oan
complain about price,

but you can't do both
at the same time.

Memory is what costs money.

And I'm glad you're
telling me your feelings
about the Mao now

because we have
a half hour left.

We can redesign it.

I'm just asking you
to manage expectations.

Look at their faces
when they see what it is.

They won't know what
they're looking at
or why they like it,

but they'll know
they want it.

Not instantly.

When people heard
Rite of Spring,

they tore the chairs
out of the theater,

they didn't buy the record.

STEVE: Rite of Spring
happens to be

the most revolutionary
and provocative symphony
of the last century.

JOANNA: Ballet.
It was a ballet.

But Igor Stravinsky
didn't say he was gonna sell
20,000 units a month.

I don't know
why we're talking
about Stravinsky,

when what I care about
is Dan Kottke

sodomizing me
in Time magazine.

Look. Obviously...

Let me say this.

Obviously,
Daniel didn't think
he was doing anything wrong.

By talking to Time
about it?

Yeah.

I don't know
what that means.

You said,
when you told me the story...
You said, you said to Dan,

"Did Time magazine ask you
if I had a daughter
named Lisa?"

And Dan said, "Yeah."

My point was
that he answered you
simply and honestly

because he didn't think
he'd done anything wrong.

Except, Joanna, except,

I don't have
a daughter named Lisa.

And this story is now about
how I'm denying paternity
and took a blood test.

And that's why
there's a picture of...

I don't know what
the fuck that is.

That's why there's a picture
of a PC on the cover

instead of a picture of me
and the Mac.

I don't know
what to tell you.

I was supposed to be
Time magazine's
Man of the Year.

And then Dan Kottke
was born.

Well...

What?

She's waiting for you.

Who?

Chrisann.

Brennan?

JOANNA: They're out
in the hall.

They've been
sitting in the back

of the auditorium
since 7:00 this morning.

I'm not having a session
with Chrisann right now.

We issued 335
press credentials
for the launch.

Steve, you piss off Chrisann,

she's gonna stand
inthelobby
and give 335 interviews,

and you, pal, will be longing
for the halcyon days
of Dan Kottke.

(SIGHS)

Let me
get this over with.

But don't leave.
You're gonna stay here.

What? No, I'm not.

No. There's less of
a chance of a scene

if you stay here,
she'll be cool.

I find
all this excruciatingly
personal and...

(STAMMERS)

I'm not staying.

Come on.

I don't wanna be in a room
alone with Chrisann.

This is me and you.

Fine.

Hey.

Steve.

This is a surprise.

Why don't you come on in?

Thank you.

You coming too?

Yes, I'm not gonna
leave her in the hallway.

Okay. It's a safe hallway,
but anyway.

You remember Joanna Hoffman?
She's the head of
marketing for the Mac.

Good to see you.

Nice to see you.

Hello, Lisa.

We've met before,
and you told me
you like the way I talk,

and that was
my favorite thing
anyone's ever said to me.

You're from Poland.

Yes, I am.
Do you know
where that is?

The top of the Earth.

I think you're thinking
of the North Pole.

Well, we're a little
pressed for time, so...

lflleave
you guys alone.

Why do you wanna leave
when you just said...

I'm gonna check in
with Hertzfeld.

We're trying to get
a computer to say "Hello,"

but right now
it's being very shy.

Would you come help me?
lsthatokay?

Sure.

STEVE: Thank you.

My dad named
a computer after me.

I'm not your...

Actually, do you know
what a coincidence is, Lisa?

No.

Like if you met someone.

You made a new friend
and her name was Lisa, too.

That would be
a coincidence.

"Lisa" stands for
"local integrated
systems architecture."

L-I-S-A.

It's a coincidence.

You about done?

Yeah.
Okay.

JOANNA: Come.

Let's make that
computer say "Hi."

Go ahead, Lisa.

So it was
the other way around.

I was named
after the computer?

Nothing was named
afieranybcdy.
It's a coincidence.

Come on.

(VOICE BREAKING)
What's the matter with you?

What's the matter with you?
Why are you
telling her these things?

Why are you still
telling her
I'm her father?

Ajudge told her
you're her father.
No, he didn't.

And where the hell
do you get off

telling Time magazine
I've slept with 28%
of the men in America?

That's not...
Where do you get off?

That's not remotely
what I said.

(SNAPPING FINGERS)

It's right here.

First of all,
can I tell you something
about Time magazine?

Ibeheveifs
a training facility
for paid assassins.

"Jobs insists,"
lam quoting...

I didn't invent math.

"'28% of the male population
of the United States
could be the father."'

I wasn't saying you've slept
with 28% of American men.

I was using an algorithm
based on the blood test,

which said there was
a 94.1 % chance
that I'm the father.

You're trying to
publicly paint me
as a slut and a whore.

Believe me, I'm not trying
to publicly do
anything with you.

Two million people read Time.
How am I supposed...

It would be more
if they'd put me
on the cover,

but Dan Kottke decided
to kidney-punch me.

I applied for
welfare yesterday.

STEVE: I'm sorry?
Hello!

I said I applied
for welfare yesterday.

The Time article
said your Apple stock
was worth $441 million.

And I wanted to ask you
how you felt about that.

Well, I feel like
Apple stock has been
dramatically undervalued.

This would be
a good time to get in.

Your daughter
and her mother...

Chrisann.
...are on welfare.

We're living in
a hovel in Menlo Park.

We can't pay
the heating bills.

She sleeps in a parka.
Your daughter...

She's not my daughter!

Because, as reported
by Time magazine,

I've slept with 28%
of the men in America?

No.
All of them,

exactly nine months
before Lisa was born!

(DOOR OPENS)

I've got Andy here.

(DOOR CLOSES)

Excuse me.

We're there?

Hey, Chris.

CHRISANN: Hey, Andy.
How are you doin'?

Terrible.

STEVE: You guys
caught up now?

Excuse me for
saying hello to my friend
who thinks you're a dick.

I don't think you're a...
We're there?

No. It's got a one-in-six
chance of working.

God damn it.

We're not a pit
crew at Daytona.

This can't be fixed
in seconds.

You didn't have seconds,
you had three weeks.

The universe was created
in a third of that time.

Well, someday you'll have to
tell us how you did it.

(CHUCKLES)

Here's what
I'm gonna do.

I'm gonna announce
the names of everyone
who designed the launch demo.

I'm gonna introduce everyone
and ask them to stand up.

The bag was designed
by Susan Kare.

The Macintosh font
that's scrolling
across the screen

was designed by Steve Capps.

The starry night
and skywriting
was Bruce Horn.

Mac:Paint,
Mac:VVrite, Alice...

Down to the calculator.

And then I'm gonna say,
the voice demo
that didn't work

was designed by
Andy Hertzfeld.

(CHUCKLES)

Steve...
Five in six is your chance

of surviving the first round
of Russian roulette,

and you've reversed
those odds.

So unless
you wanna be disgraced

in front of
your friends, family,

colleagues, stockholders,
and the press,

I wouldn't
stand here arguing.

I'd go try and get
some more bullets
out of the gun.

Do it, Andy!

Stop. You.

What size shirt
do you wear?
Me?

Does anyone know
what size shirt he wears?

Does anyone know
what size shirt I wear?

JOANNA: Does anyone know
where the closest
psychiatrist is?

The disk fits
in your pocket.

I need a shirt
with a breast pocket,
I can take it out onstage.

A shirt?
The disk!

I need a white shirt
in my size
with a breast pocket.

Yes. Which one of
the no stores
that are open at 8:45

do you want me to have
someone run to and return
from in 15 minutes'?

Go out in the lobby,
find someone my size
who's wearing a white shirt,

tell them I'll trade them
for a free computer,

and they get to
keep my shirt.

Does it have to be
a white shirt?
ls blue okay?

No. The Mac is beige,
I'm beige,

the disk is blue,
the shirt has to be white.

Andy?

STEVE: Hello, I'm Macintosh.

Bring me the head
of Andy Hertzfeld.

I tried to get it to say,
"Hello," but it's shy.

Yeah.

So that's it?

STEVE: That's it.

I don't get it.

I know.

What are people
going to do with it?

Lisa, how old are you now?

You know how old she is.
How old are you, Lisa?

Five.

Come sit here for a minute.

Do you know
what this is?

It's a computer.

It's a computer.

Can I borrow
your hand for a second?

Point that arrow
and click.

You don't have to,
but if you want,
you can play with it.

Nothing you can do
will break it,

so just do
whatever you want with it.

What are you doing?

I'm paying you exactly
what the court
ordered me to pay you.

$385 a month.

I'm not the one
who decided
on that amount.

And I'm asking you
how you feel.

If you feel all right.

If it feels all right
to you that
your daughter...

She's not my...
That your daughter

and her mother
are on welfare

while you're worth
$441 million
for making that.

I'm proud to say
Apple donates computers
to underfunded schools,

and we'll be
doing more of the same
with the Mac...

What?

Apple donates millions
of dollars' worth of
computers to sohools.

What does that
have to do with...

Imagine an underprivileged
kid that has their favorite
teacher with them 24 hours.

We're minutes away
from being able to do that.

In your head,
was that an answer
to my question?

Tell me the question again.

I wasn't the one
who sued you
for child support.

No, let...
San Mateo County sued you.

STEVE: No, let me explain
what happened,

because I have
plenty of time right now.

(DOOR OPENS)

Excuse me.
You have a visitor.

Just wanted to say
goodluck!
Hey,Chfisann.

Hello, Woz.

Hang on.

(CLEARS TH ROAT)

Just wanted to
say good luck.

Thanks. You, too.

It's a big morning.
Yeah.

You should see
this crowd out there.

This crowd,
it's like, um...

I can't really wait
for you to come up
with a metaphor, man.

'Yeah.So,uh,HskML
I want to ask you a favor.
Yeah?

Can you acknowledge
the Apple ll team
in your remarks?

Icannot

Just an acknowledgment.
Have them stand up.

We're launching the Mac.

It'd be a morale booster,
just a mention

so they could get
a round of applause.

Woz...
Just a mention.

Can we stick a pin
in this for a minute?

Sure, yep.
Thank you.

Just talking about
an acknowledgment
for the team.

I've got Chrisann in there.
I'll see you
in just a second.

Yep.

That.

What?

STEVE: You asked me
what people
are gonna do with it.

They're gonna do that.

(KNOCK ON DOOR)

One of the engineers.

Thank you.

Do you like it?

I'm sorry?

It's an abstract.

(CHUCKLES)

You used MacPaint.

Push that key and the "S"
at the same time.

Now type your name.

(KEYBOARD CLACKING)

Do you know
which box says "Save"?

Right. Go ahead
and click on it.

I'll put some money
in your account.

And buy you a new house,
someplace near
a decent school.

Thank you.

Woz wants a minute.

And Sculley's asking
for you.

We're done?

Could you teach me
more things?

On the computer?

Lisa, wait for me
in the hall, please.

You can put your coat on
in the hall.

Bye, Lisa.

Bye.

CHRISANN: Lisa,
in the hall. Now.

I just wanna know,
when you say

you're gonna put
money in my account,

how much we're talking about.

It's a school day.
She needs to be in school.

I'm gonna give you
whatever you need.

(DOOR CLOSES)

Woz wants me to acknowledge
the Apple ll team.

You must be able to see
that she looks like you.

I don't want to
insult Woz.

I just think
it's backward-looking
at exactly the wrong moment.

I know you heard
what I said.

I heard
what you said, Joanna.

It's just, we're about to
do this thing.

At 9:41, the planet's
gonna shift on its axis,
nigh and forever.

Two most significant events
of the 20th century.

The Allies win the War,
and this.

This.

So maybe right now
isn't the very best time
to scold me

for not being
a better father to a kid
who's not my kid.

The test said I...
I don't care
what the test said.

I don't care about 94.1 %,
ortheinsane
algorithm you used

to get to 28% of
American men.

I'm buying her a new house.

I'm giving her money.

There's a small girl
who believes
you're her father.

That's all. That's all
the math there is.

She believes it.
What are you
gonna do about that?

God sent his only son
on a suicide mission,

but we like him anyway
because he made trees.

We're gonna sell
a million units
in the first 9O days,

20,000 a month after that.
(SIGHS)

So maybe you could give me
a break, Ms. Hoffman?

(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)

(BREATHES DEEPLY)

(AUDIENCE CHEERING)

(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)

Woz.

WOZNIAKI Hey.

There's nothing in
that vending machine
that won't kill you.

Just browsing.

STEVE: Let's take a walk.

WOZNIAK: Can I tell you
something?

Yeah.
After the meeting
in Maui,

the Apple ll team
was upset and angry and down,
and do you know why?

Because the Apple ll
wasn't mentioned
even once?

The Apple ll
wasn't mentioned...

Yes, that's it.
You have it, yes.

That wasn't an oversight.

They know that.
They know it wasn't.

Look, I don't wanna make
a big deal out of this...

That's entirely
within your power.

The Apple ll is...

The Apple ll is
what was, my friend.

The Apple ll is what pays
the bills around here
and has for seven years.

And if you
embarrass these people,

you are going to see
a brain drain
at this company, my brother.

Markkula took
you off the Lisa,

not them and not me,
so don't blame...

Markkula took me off
the Lisa because
of his strong religious

objection to making it good.

Now, I gave you everything
you wanted on the Apple ll.

You don't ask for a lot?
There wasn't a single fight
youlost

Do you concede the slots
are the reason

for the success of
the Apple ll?

We can't possibly
still be talking
about the slots.

I have a point.

It's been seven years.
The eight slots
on the Apple ll...

You're still doing it,
you're talking
about the slots.

There's something
wrong with you.

This argument
started in the garage.

What are you talking about?
Why would you
only want two slots?

A printer and a modem.

With eight slots, you...

This is a huge deal
that we were able
to add eight slots.

I appreciate
the engineering,
but it's not what we're doing.

And thank God I won
that argument...
VVoz.

...bec:ause the open system
is what people love
about the machine,

and it's why it sold
and still sells.

An open system.
We're not doing
an open system.

Of course we are.

That's what people want,
and the breakthrough
on the Apple ll...

People don't know
what they want
until you show it to them.

Serious users
want to customize,

they wanna modify,
they wanna jack it up.

They want hardware
engineers like me

to expand its capabilities,
okay?

Keyboards for music,
better sound board,

better display boards,
improved memory cards.

And it's why
there are 3,000 people
here right now.

The slots are what allowed
the Apple ll to run,

forjust one example,
VisiCalc:, which,
from my guess,

single-handedly sold between
200,000 and 300,000 machines.

They want slots.

They don't get a vote.

When Dylan wrote
Shelter from the Storm,

he didn't ask people
to contribute to the lyrics.

Plays don't stop
so the playwright
can ask the audience

what scene they'd like
to see next.

Painters... We're on
the verge of a tectonic...
Hobbyists are...

STEVE: Hobbyists?

A printer and a modem,
two slots.

The Apple ll team
has my affection,

but I'm not loving up
a 7-year-old product
at the Mac: launch.

WOZNIAK: Computers
aren't paintings.

Fuck you.

I'm gonna say "fuck you"
every time you say that

until you either die or stop.

Steve...
Try it.

Steve.
Say it.

Computers aren't paintings.
Fuck you.

Yes, they are,
and what I want
is a closed system.

End-to-end control.

Completely incompatible
with anything.

Computers aren't supposed
to have human flaws.

I'm not going to build
this one with yours.

Steve!

Hey.

STEVE: Today is about
the Macintosh.

And the Mac is mine.

I give you that.

Thank you.
I give you that.

Just publicly acknowledge
the Apple ll team

becauseifs
the right thing to do.

We'll know soon enough
if you are Leonardo da Vinoi
or just think you are,

but in the meantime,
it would be great...

In the meantime,
the Apple ll is done.

Seven years.
It was a great run.

You should go out
in the house
and take your seat.

The Mac is Jef Raskin's.

Say it for me.

Computers aren't...
Fuck you.

All right.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

STEVE: We're there?
I need more time.

You can't have it.

Twenty minutes.
It's 8:58.

HERTZFELD: We can start late.

Hear me.
We're a computer company.
We can't start late.

Then I have another idea.
What?

It's deceptive and
borderline unethical.

I'm listening.
It'll run on the 512.

You tested it?
Yeah.

Wait.

You're gonna demo
a 128 computer on a 512?

Nobody's gonna know.

And you think that's
"borderline" unethical?

Name my
other choices, please.

Please, you have to tell me
why it's so important
for it to say "Hello."

Hollywood, they made
computers scary things.

See how this reminds you
of a friendly face?

That the disk slot
is a goofy grin?

It's warm and it's playful,
and it needs to say "Hello."

It needs to say "Hello"
becauseitcan.

(CROWD CHEERING IN DISTANCE)

We're not committing fraud.

The 512 is gonna ship
in under a year.

Will you absolve me
of your Eastern
European disapproval?

The computer in 2001
said "Hello" all the time,

and it still scared
the shit out of me.

Absolve me.

Just for this.

And just for now.

ANNOUNCER:
Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome

founding board member,
Mike Markkula.

All right. Okay.

Go make a dent
in the universe, Steven.

See you
in a couple of hours.

MARKKU LA: And I'm going to
take us through the formal
part of the meeting.

The legal part,
if you will.

STEVE: Thank merciful God.
The cavalry's shown up.

SCULLEY: Because I hear
you've been worse
than usual this morning.

I didn't think
that was possible,

so I've been dispatched
as the "Steve Whisperer."

This is a '55 Margaux.

It's 9:00 in the morning.

This is a '55 Margaux.

(CHUCKLES)

Is it my imagination,
or have you started
to dress like me?

It was a bad idea
to have Markkula open
with quarterly reports.

Instead we should have
just dropped water
on the audience.

Just big 10,000-gallon
tanks of cold water,
dropped from the ceiling.

Save Mike some money
on index cards.

Oh, just relax.

Why?

I don't know.
No one's ever
asked me that question.

There you go.

(MARKKULA SPEAKING
INDISTINCTLY IN DISTANCE)

You're the only one
who sees the world
the same way I do.

No one sees the world
the same way you do.

I'm like Julius Caesar, John.

I'm surrounded by enemies.

No, you're not.

The board...

Oh, "The board."
The board's behind you.

Only because you see
to it they are.

Oh, I think
it's a good board,

but if you want me
to push them out
one by one,

we can talk about that.

I want you to
push them out all at once

through a window,
if it's the nearest exit.

The look on their faces
when we showed them the spot.

I couldn't see their faces,
because they were banging
their heads on the table.

Yesterday, the day after
it airs once,

the publisher cf Adweek
calls it the best
commercial cf all time.

Of all time!

And it is.

And if anyone does
one better,

it's gonna be Chiat/Day,
who the board
wanted to replace,

and it's gonna be Lee Clow,
who the board thought
was out of his mind.

MARKKU LA: Ladies and
gentlemen, 1984.

(ALL CHEERING)

(MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY
ON SCREEN)

MAN: (ON SCREEN) We have
created, for the first time
in all history,

a garden of pure ideology

where each worker may bloom
secure from the pests

of any contradictory
true thoughts.

Our unification of thoughts

is more powerful a weapon
than any fleet
or army on Earth.

We are one people...

Did we use skinheads
as extras?

A couple of people
have told me that.

Yeah.

We paid skinheads?
I've got skinheads
on my payroll?

They had a look
you wanted.

The skinheads?
Yeah.

SCULLEY: Okay, let's keep
that to ourselves.

(SHOUTS)

We shall prevail!

(ALL CHEERING)

MAN: On January 24th,

Apple Computer will
introduce Macintosh.

SCULLEY: Who else knows?
Who else knows what?

That we paid terrorists
to be in our TV commercial.

John.
They were wrong about the ad,

but they're a good board.
Good people.

Their only problem...
Their problem is that
they're people.

People.

The very nature of people
is something to be overcome.

When I was running Pepsi,

we had a lct cf success
focusing on
18- to 55-year-clds

who weren't members
of violent hate groups.

L get it.
You're not
surrounded by enemies.

(SIGHS)
We're almost there.

I'm back and forth
on the Dylan.

I might quote
a different verse.

SCULLEY: What are the choices?

"For the loser now
will be later to win,"
which is what we have.

Or?

"Come mothers and fathers
throughout the land,

"and don't criticize
what you can't understand.

"Your sons
and your daughters..."

"...are beyond
your command."

I just lost a hundred bucks
to Andy Hertzfeld.

He said you'd change it
to that verse.

We got 45 seconds.
I want to use it to
ask you a question.

Why do people
who are adopted

feel like they were rejected
instead of selected?

That came out of nowhere.

"Your sons
and your daughters
are beyond your command.

"Your old road
is rapidly aging."

So go fuck yourself,
because my name
is Steve Jobs,

and "the times
they are a-changing."

I don't feel rejected.

You're sure?
Very sure.

Because it's not like
the baby is born
and the parents look and say,

"Nah, we're not interested
in this one."

On the other hand,
someone did choose you.

It's having no control.

You find out
you were out of the loop

when the most
crucial events in your life
were set in motion.

As long as you have control.

I don't understand people
who give it up.

What inspired Hertzfeld
to make that bet?

He was warning me

that being your father figure
could be dangerous.

Keep your 100 bucks.

I'm sticking with
the first verse.

Good.

What the hell
does he mean?
Nothing.

I'm proud of you.

Thank you, boss.

MARKKULA: It's my pleasure to
introduce my friend

and the CEO of Apple,

John Sculley.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDS)

(WHISPERS) John?
Yeah?

Lisa made a painting
on the Mac.

REPORTER 1: The Macintosh,
Apple's near-mythological
home computer,

has gotten off
to a rocky start

in its battle with
industry titan IBM.

REPORTER 2: With sales
originally projected

to be 1,000,000 in
the first quarter,

Apple has sold
only 35,000 of
the user-friendly machines.

REPORTER '5". The insistence
by Steve Jobs that it'd have

what's called
"end-to-end control,"

which is a way of saying
that it's not compatible

with most outside
hardware or software

is the Shakespearean flaw
in a machine
that had potential.

REPORTER 4:
Apple Computers closed
two of its factories today

in the wake of
disappointing sales.

REPORTER '5: Do you know
how many Macs
were sold last month?

500.

REPORTER 6: In a move
that surprised some,
but not all, on Wall Street,

the board of directors
of Apple Computers

voted today to fire
its co-founder, Steve Jobs.

REPORTER 7: Did he jump,
or was he pushed?

His ex-boss,
Apple CEO John Sculley,
refused to comment.

REPORTER 8: However,
in an exclusive interview,

Steve Wozniak has
slammed the integrity
of his old friend Steve Jobs.

He calls Jobs
"an insulting
and hurtful guy."

REPORTER 9: Jobs is hitting
back with a new company
and a new computer.

Apple has a new competitor.

Steve Jobs' Black Cube
is aimed at
the education market.

REPORTER 10: Few people
have the ability to make
the world wait,

but that is just
what Jobs is doing
with his new company, NeXT.

(HORSE WHINNYING)

STEVE". Focus seems
kind of sharp.

GEORGE". On the slide?

The floor. The pin spot.

I think we want
a sharp focus.

STEVE: Don't
take it personally.

Just not a fan of
the circus aesthetic.

GEORGE: All right,
let's hold here.

We're gonna have to go up
and refocus the instruments.

STEVE: Just one,
the 30 is fine.

While we're holding,
there are well-wishers
in the VIP room.

And Woz is here.

Steve Wozniak. Yes,
hey, thank you very much.

JOANNA: And Andy Hertzfeld.

Andy Hertzfeld.
Thank you.

JOANNA". John Sculley
is here, too.

It's nice that he's here.

STEVE: Really? I don't think
it's very nice at all.

JOANNA: You have to see them.
They wanna pay
their respects.

If they were respectful,
we'd all still be
at Apple right now.

(SCOFFS) Look...

If they really wished
me well, they'd keep it
to themselves.

Can I tell you something?
I don't think
they do wish me well.

But I'm all right with that.
I'm over Apple.

I got over the Mac,
and Woz and Sculley,

the same way you get over
your high-school sweetheart.

Build a new one.

Can I tell you something?
Yes.

You said you wouldn't
compete with them,

but you designed a computer
specifically for
the education market,

which they putatively own.

So, I think it's cool
they're here.

They're suing me.
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)

Still.

It was nice they came.

They're not being
magnanimous.

They want it to look
like an amicable divorce.

History doesn't
remember Joe DiMaggio
kindly for dumping Marilyn.

MAN: Steve.

(JOANNA GROANS)

What's your problem?

JOANNA: I don't know,
but I'm sure it can be
traced back to you.

You know, I'm the one
who has to explain you
to people.

$100,000 to Paul Rand
for a corporate logo,

when we didn't even know
what our company made.

A $650,000 mold
for the Cube

because God forbid
the angles be 90.1
instead of 90.

I forbid the angles to
be 90.1 instead of 90.

That box could be on display
at the Guggenheim.

Don't give them reason
to say to the press

you have a chip
on your shoulder.

Will you do that
for me?

I don't have a chip
on my shoulder.

(CHUCKLING)
Okay, okay.

But don't give them
a reason to say you do.

I don't.

That's the right attitude.

That's not an attitude.

They're gonna
call me back in a minute
to look at the light.

Get one out of the way.

Fine!

Yeah?
Yeah.

One more thing.

Sure.

No questions from
the press after.

No? Why?

Until I have better answers,

no press avail.

If somebody asks where I am,
you just saw me,
and I'll be right back.

Okay.

Who do you want first?

Bring me the face
of Steve Wozniak.

(EXHALES DEEPLY)

Hang on.

(BLUES ROCK MUSIC
PLAYING ON RADIO)

I thought you went
to school.
Hang on.

You were supposed to
go to school an hour ago.
lthoughtyoulefi.

I didn't wake up my mom
on time this morning.

It's happened before, too.

I wake up with the alarm,
and then I get dressed
and eat breakfast,

but sometimes I forget
to see what time it is
after that.

Why doesn't your mom
just set her own
alarm clock?

It's one of
my chores.

I don't understand what
that has to do with
why you're still...

Where's your mother?

LISA: She went to find
a payphone.

An hour ago, she said...

You don't have to
raise your hand.

You said it was off
by a little.

It is.

I just measured it.

Joanna“.

Exactly a foot
on all four sides.

There are six sides.
But you're not
supposed be here right now.

We know if four of the sides
are equal to each other,

the other two must be
equal as well.

The top, bottom,
right, and left

are about a millimeter shorter
than the front and back.

They're not,
I measured them.

Lisa, I'm kind of
an expert in design.

And that's a 20-cent ruler.
You think there's a chance
it could be off?

If I had another ruler,
I would measure this ruler,

but I really doubt
it's off.

When your mother
comes back,

you have to go to school.
Because it's a ruler!

Why is it Off?

Did you hear
what I just said?
Yes.

Because sometimes
it seems like you just

keep saying what you want
without listening.

I'm listening.

Is there something
you need?

No.

Why isn't it
a perfect cube?

You've asked me before.
I forget what it is.

It's an optical anomaly.

To the human eye,
a perfect cube
doesn't look like a oube,

so we made it roughly
a millimeter shorter
than a foot on two sides.

What's an anomaly?

You've asked me
that before, too.

I don't know why
you keep doing that.

It's an exception.
Something that
doesn't fit a pattern.

(KNOCK ON DOOR)

You have to go to school.
Come in!

(DOOR OPENS)

I think you two
have met.

Hello, old friend.

You look well.
So do you.

So do you.

And they're telling me
George is ready for you
to look at the focus.

STEVE: Take a walk with me.

Is this Lisa?
Yeah.

This can't be Lisa.
STEVE: It is.

Lisa's this big.
They get taller.
Come on.

Do you remember me?
She doesn't.

I'm your dad's friend,
Steve Wozniak.

I apologize,
I don't remember you.

You're very polite.

Woz?
Yeah.

STEVE: Chrisann's at
a payphone.
Would you find her?

JOANNA: Yeah.
(DOOR OPENS)

STEVE: Good turnout.
WOZNIAK: Great turnout.

Yeah.

"Insanely great."
(CHUCKLES)
Insanely great.

You know, this is
the first time we haven't
played for the same team.

It's like you're releasing
your first solo album.

I appreciate your
inviting me to the launch.

I just want to wipe
the slate clean.

That's exactly what I want.
That's why I came backstage.

I want you to know
I'll be out there with you.

Any chance I can get you
to go out there
instead of me?

(CHUCKLES)

I love you, Steve.
I love you, too, Woz.

WOZNIAK: You know,
some things were said.
They were.

They were said in public.
They were published.

Were you pressured
to do it?

WOZNIAKI Was I what?

STEVE: Check it out.

It's the orchestra pit
for the San Francisco Opera.

Was I pressured
to do it?

I once met
Seiji Ozawa
at Tanglewood.

A thunderous conductor.

Godly artfulness
and nuance.

And I asked him
what exactly a conductor
does that a metronome can't.

Surprisingly, he...

He didn't beat
the living shit out of you?

That's right. No, he said,

"The musicians play
their instruments.

"I play the orchestra."

That feels like
something that sounds good,
but doesn't mean anything.

Markkula, Sculley.
They ask you to slag me off
in the press?

I had reason
to be angry.

Did they?
Absolutely not.

But they asked you
to talk.

Apple was under siege,
you'd just left the company.

Someone had to talk
to the press.

I'm right here, Woz.
The company left me.

I begged YOU-
I begged YOU-

The Apple ll accounted
for 70% of the revenue.

What did you think
was gonna happen?

You didn't care enough
about the Apple ll
or the Lisa.

Let's be really clear.

I didn't care at all
about the Apple ll
or the Lisa.

I wasn't pressured
to do it.

What I said to the press

was an honest, if tempered,
reflection of what
lbeheved.

Woz.
Yeah?

What the fuck
is on your wrist?

You wanna know?
I literally can't wait.

Everyone's gonna be
wearing these in 10 years.

It's a Nixie Watch,
made using Nixie tubes.

This is actually
40-year-old technology.

Cold-cathode tubes.
They're operating
at 140 volts.

I tilt my wrist 45 degrees,
it's right there.

Hours, minutes,
and seconds.

The way our minds work.

Look at that.

Do me a favor.

Set the watch ahead
like you're on a plane
and just changed time zones.

Not a problem.

Unscrew that,

just hit the button.

Excuse me,
flight attendant,

the man next to me
would appear to be
detonating a bomb.

You think this looks
like a bomb.

Even right now,
I'm not 100% sure it isn't.

(BUZZING)

I think maybe once people
get used to it...

No.

I was angry.

You were saying things
about the Apple ll,

and the way you were
treating the team...

Woz.

You get a free pass
for life.

I got to get back onstage.

We got, like, two minutes
of rehearsal time left.

Do you understand
how condescending
that just was?

Maybe you don't.

I don't want to see you
get dragged off

an airplane in
plastic handcuffs.

I get a free pass
for life from you?

(SCOFFS)

You give out the passes?

You give them to me?

You're gonna have a stroke,
little buddy.

What did you do?

What did you do?

Why has Lisa
not heard of me?

Shit, man,
how many fourth-graders
have heard of you?

You can't write code.

You're not an engineer.
You're not a designer.

You can't put
a hammer to a nail.

I built the circuit board.

The graphical
interface was stolen

from Xerox PARC.

Jef Raskin was the leader
of the Mac team

before you threw him off
his own project.

Everything! Someone else
designed the box.

So, how come 1 O times
in a day I read
"Steve Jobs is a genius"?

What do you do?

I play the orchestra.

And you're a good musician.

You sit right there.
You're the best
in your row.

WOZNIAK: I came here
to clear the air!

Do you know
why I came here?

Didn't you just
answer that?

I came here because
you're gonna get killed.

Your computer's gonna fail.

You had
a college and university
advisory board

telling you they need
a powerful workstation
for $2,000 to $3,000.

You've priced NeXT
at $6,500.

And that doesn't include
the optional
$3,000 hard drive,

which people will discover
isn't optional.

Because the optical disk
is too weak to do anything.

And the $2,500 laser printer

brings the total
to $12,000.

And, in the entire world,

you are the only person
who oares that it's housed
in a perfect oube.

You're gonna get killed.

And I came here
to stand next to you
while that happens

because that's what
friends do.

That's what men do.
I don't need your "pass."

We go back,
so don't talk to me
like I'm other people.

I'm the only one
that knows

that this guy here
is someone you invented.

I'm standing by you
because that perfect cube,
that does nothing,

is about to be
the single biggest failure

in the history of
personal computing.

Tell me something else
I don't know.

Back onstage?

We're out of time.
They've got to mop the stage
and open the house.

If it crashes,
it crashes, right?

You'll make a joke.

I'll make a joke.

If it crashes,
it crashes.

It's a good slogan.
"NeXT. If it crashes,
it crashes."

I'm not just talking
about the demo, Steve.

If it tanks,
we don't swallow cyanide.

We go back to
the drawing board.

No more drawing boards.

Invent the Edsel twice,
you don't get any more
drawing boards.

Tell me
what the plan is.

You have to tell me
the plan, because
I don't know.

You're walking around
like you've got
"can't lose" cards.

The plan will
reveal itself to you
when you're ready to see it.

Will I have to drop acid?

Couldn't hurt.

Is there a plan?

Have I ever let you down?

Every single goddamn time.

Then I'm due.

Is there?

Joanna, there's a plan.

I just don't wanna
put you in a position
where you're lying to people.

(SIGHS)

Start 15 minutes late
so Avie can recompile

and give us
a fighting chance.

Jesus Christ! How many times
are we gonna have this...

We're not
starting late ever!
Fine!

We're not ever
starting late!
"...ever starting late."

But where do you come down
on starting late?

(SNAPS FINGERS)

Lisa's been
doing this thing

where she asks me about stuff
I've already told her.

She asks me questions,
and I know she already
knows the answers.

What's that about?

JOANNA: Kids do that
when they're scared

one of their parents
is in a bad mood.

They try to get you talking
about something you like.

It's very common
and can be treated

by talking to her
about things she likes.

Do you have any experience
or training in this field?

No.

Tell them to open the house.

Where's Lisa?

She's around.

STEVE: What does that mean?

CHRISANN: She's running
around the building.

STEVE: An hour ago,
you said you were
taking her to sohool.

CHRISANN: She begged me
to let her stay.

There are fathers
who would so love...

It is wrong, okay?
It is morally wrong,
it's parentally wrong.

It is wrong for you
to use Lisa as a way of
getting money from me.

She'll know,
if she doesn't already,

that that is your
primary use for her.

And she will hate you
for the rest of your life.

She will see,
if she doesn't already,

that her mother is a woman
who stands up to men.
(VVATER SPLASHING)

STEVE: By living off
of them.

By not letting
myself be imprisoned
and degraded by them.

(FLUSHES TOILET)

Imprisoned?
I can't get rid of you.

I need a doctor,
and I need a dentist.

I dropped out of college
after a semester, but,
okay, let's have a look.

You will support
your daughter
and her mother.

Did you pay someone $1,500
to bless your house?

Did you hear
what I said?
Did you?

I don't remember
how much it was, Steve.

It was $1,500.

They don't do it
for free.

They don't.
They charge $1,500.

How I spend...

Fuck. You know what?
I'm not even...

Were you about to say,
"How I spend my money
is none of your business"?

I have a sinus infection,
and I need to see
a dentist, too.

So you can see how
your "blessing" budget
could have been better spent.

Like on a perfect cube?

Look at me, Chrisann.
What?

You know
who I am, right?

Yes.

And you know
I know people.

What are you talking about?
Look at me.

And you know
the people I know,
they know people.

What is this?

If I ever hear again
that you've thrown

a cereal bowl
at Lisa's head...

What?
...my private line's
gonna ring.

And a voice on
the other end is
gonna say, "We're all set."

That's how I'll learn
that you're dead.
Are you...

I threw the bowl
on the floor.

I didn't throw it
atherhead.

She wasn't even
in the room!

She was nowhere...

I threw the bowl
on the floor.

She's a little girl.
You're scaring her.

I'm a grown man.
You're scaring me.

Taking out the garbage
is a chore.

Clearing the table
is a chore.

Waking you up in the morning
is just fucking creepy.

Please teach me more
about being a parent.

We're all done here.

It means so muoh ooming
from someone who won't
admit he is one.

Stop screaming at Lisa.
I give her responsibilities!

Got it.
And one day she's
gonna thank rne for it!

Probably in your sleep.
Fuck off!

Okay.

(DOOR OPENS)
I never... I never threw
anything at her head!

Steve...

I never would.

Things don't become so
because you say so.

There'll be more money
in your account
by the end of business.

(SOBS)

Were you being nice?

Oh, yeah.

(sesame)

JOANNA: Andy's next.

Hertzfeld or Cunningham?

Hertzfeld.

He's playing
with Avie Tevanian
on the computer backstage.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

WOMAN: Ladies and gentlemen,
the house is now open.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

...playing in front
of thousands of people.

Steve!

Can he do it later, Joel?
We go in eight minutes.

Can I just get
a quick reaction
to the press this morning?

Vvhataboutfl?
The size of it,
the volume.

I'll tell you
on background...

I was hoping for
a quote from Steve.

I'll tell you
on background

that I've never seen
anything like it
in the tech industry.

I called
The Wall Street Journal

to take out
a full-page ad for today,

and do you know what
their sales guy said?

"Why bother? It'd be like
notifying Macy's that
tomorrow is Christmas."

You saw the Stewart Alsop
newsletter?

I did.

I'm sorry, Joanna,
I need to get Steve
on the record.

The headline was,
"Dear NeXT, when can I get
my machine?"

When can he?

We'll announce
the ship date in the next
eight to 1 O weeks.

Alsop's not talking
about the ship date.

He wants to know
when he can get
one to play with.

We have a lot of
respect for Stewart Alsop,

and we want to get
a machine into his hands

so he can tell
his subscribers about it.

When will that be?
Very soon.

A couple of days?
A week? Off the record.

(TURNS OFF)

Off the record?
Completely.

(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
We think...

He'll get it
when it's finished.

It's not finished?

STEVE: It's almost finished.

I've been
watching you rehearse
the demo for three weeks.

STEVE: Yeah.

What's left?
STEVE: A little thing.

What?
I think that's...

We're off the record,
and Joel's always been
good at understanding nuance.

What's left to finish?

I guess, in layman's terms,
you'd have to say
we don't have an OS.

An operating system?
Yeah.

JOEL: What do you mean?

Well, the OS is
what runs the computer.

In fact, it sort of
is the computer.

How has it been running?
How's it gonna run
this morning?

What do you mean,
you don't have an OS?

STEVE: It's like this.

Avie Tevanian
is our Chief
Software Designer,

and he wrote a demo program.

It's like we built
a great car,

but we haven't built
the engine.

So we put a golf-cart battery
in there to make it go
for a little bit.

All this computer knows
how to do right now
is demonstrate itself.

You're telling me
the only thing you've built
is a black cube?

Yes. Yeah.

But isn't it
the coolest black cube
you've ever seen?

Is this...
We're off the record.

Is this a strategy
or a problem,
because if it's a problem...

Do not share
proprietary knowledge
with that man.

It's not a problem.

I wouldn't
understand it anyway.

I don't understand it either,
and my name's on the patents.

It's got email.

STEVE: Well,
email's not just for
tech specialists anymore.

Well, it is,
but it won't be.

And I assume an email sent
on a NeXT computer

can only be received
by a NeXT computer?

Closed, end-to-end.

The new trash can is wrong.

I wanna tell you I appreciate
all the hours you put into it,

but I can't because
of how terrible it is.

Go back to the other one.

And why are we still giving
three options on the clock?

How many options
do you wanna give?

Two. "Buy it"
or "Don't."

Can I talk to you
for a second?
Abso-fruitly.

Uh, look, man,

Avie's been recompiling,
but he says

there may be some
glitches this morning.

If all there are,
are some glitches,

it'll be a triumph of
miraculous magnitude.

Why are you
translating for Avie?

HERTZFELD: I didn't want him
to find out the hard way

your position on
glitches in a demo,

but it sounds like
you've mellowed.

I've been growing, Andy.
I've been learning
to love myself.

Mmm, I wouldn't have
ever dreamed that
was a problem.

Fantastic burn.
You need to go to your seat.

How about Lisa,
getting into a school
for gifted kids?

STEVE: Yeah, she was tested,
and it turns out
she can fly.

HERTZFELD: But, seriously,
it's a big deal.

I know it's a big deal.
That's why I built
the school a building.

Well, I'm sure
that's not why she got in.

Really?

Can I show you
something funny
from Macworld?

I can't think of anything
I have to do right now.

It'll make you
feelgood.

HERTZFELD: Joanna!
Look at this!

Oh, Andy, he's only got
a couple of minutes.

It's Guy Kawasaki
writing in Macworld.
You're gonna like this.

Well, can we all
enjoy it later?

He wrote a parody
press release about Apple
buying NeXT for your OS.

He imagines a near future,
where Apple needs your OS

and has to buy NeXT,
and you come back as CEO.

He has Gates saying,
"There would now be
more innovations from Jobs

"that Microsoft could copy."

You can read it later.

Thanks.

She would've gotten in
without you donating
a building.

Still, it's something to
talk about in the interview.

(SIGHS)

All right. Good luck.

Thanks.

Give that to me.
I'll throw it out
for you.

I'm gonna hang on to it.

What?

What?

You ready for Sculley?

Excuse me! Lisa!

You can't shout!

(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)

Lisa?

You have to go.

It's dangerous up here.
That's why I make
other people do it.

Who are you hiding from,
me or your mom?

I'm not hiding.

Let's go.

What were you
listening to?

I'm listening to
two versions of
the same song.

And then,
when I get to the end,

I rewind to listen
to them again.

It's the same song,
but the versions
are different.

What's the song?
Okay.

So, it's a really old song,
and it's called
Both Sides, Now.

"Both Sides, NOW"?

Yeah.

What's it about?

It's about...
There are three verses.
Clouds, love, and life.

And the person singing
is singing that
they used to think of...

That they used
to think about...

Clouds, love, and life?

Right. One way, yeah,
but now they look at them
another way, and they...

They've come to
the conclusion that

they really
don't know clouds,
love, or life at all.

Those are the exact words.

Yeah, Joni Mitchell,

'cause it's not
a really old song,
unless I'm a really old guy.

You have to go
to school now.

Do you want rne to tell you
the differences
between the two versions?

Right now.

The first version
is the kind of thing
that you would call girlish.

I didn't mean I want to know
the difference right now.

I meant you have to
go to school right now.

I can stay and watch.

You are truant.
You're committing a crime.

I'm not gonna miss
anything important.

How do you know?

I read ahead.
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)

The Pilgrims make it
to the New World.

Then, the Declaration
of Independence.

Yeah, you skipped
a couple of centuries.

Steve?

Chrisann's out there.

(CROWD APPLAUDING
AND CHEERING)

STEVE: Let's go!

Can I make my case
for staying?

Nope.

(CROWD CONTINUES CHEERING)

She was with me.

Come on. Your dad
doesn't want us to stay.

That's not true.
That's not...

You have to be
in school, is all.

I'm committing
a crime right now,

and I don't
wanna get in trouble.

You're not in trouble.
I was kidding.

Okay.

Hey. What was
the second version?

You said the first
version was girlish,
what was the second version?

I can't really
think of the word.

Okay. Well,
have a good day at school.

"Regretful."

What?

Like, wishing you
could go back
and do things different.

You're too young
to be regretful.

Not me.

The person
singing the song.

Got it. "Regretful."
That makes sense because...

I wanna live with you.

(DOOR CLOSES)

Six minutes.

You want to see Sculley?
No.

SCULLEY: You know all
those times I told you,
you needed security?

Here's why.

STEVE: I don't know how
it is I've gotten older
and you haven't.

Some deal with the devil
I was never offered.

So, you know
what I've been thinking
for the last four years?

As it turns out, John,
I've never known
what you were thinking.

No newborn baby
has control.

Do you know what
I'm talking about?

In '84,
before the Mac: launch.
You said...

Yeah.

You said that being adopted
meant you didn't
have control.

We're starting
in a minute, so...

Why do people think
I fired you?

It's fine, John.
It's all behind us.

SCULLEY'. IS it?

Hmm?

Don't play stupid.
You can't pull it off.

You came here to ask me
why people think
you fired me?

Why do people think
I fired you?

Just confirm
something for me, okay?

You liked the ad.

Right? The commercial,
1984. You liked it.

SCULLEY: When are you
gonna get furniture?

STEVE: It's HOT
an easy process.

SCULLEY: It is.
You buy a couch,
take it from there.

I'd be really surprised
if you came here

to talk about
interior decorating.

I liked the ad very much.

You did?
You know I did.

You're a lying
son of a bitch
who tried to kill it.

It's time to take
a hard look at the Mac.

It's past time.

It's overpriced.

We need to drop it to $1,995.
We need to double
the marketing budget,

put more bodies on
an internal hard drive
and invest in FileServer.

Where the hell did you
get the idea that
I tried to kill...

Lee Clow.
Lee's wrong.

He's lying?
He's mistaken.

SCULLEY: Where would
the money come from?

It would come from
finally getting rid
of the Apple ll.

The Apple ll
is the only thing
making money.

You agreed with the board.

I understood
the board's oonoerns,
but I...

The board's concerns
that we didn't show
the product?

Among other things,
but my question was...

What other things?
Honestly, I'm just asking
'cause I'm curious.

You said
"among other things."

Among other things.
It was set in
a dystopian galaxy.

It took place on
a planet where
we don't live.

It was dark,
and the opposite
of our brand.

And we didn't show
the product.

People talked about the ad,
but most of them didn't know
what we were selling.

The Mac needs
to sell for $1,995.

There is no market
research telling us

that the Mac is failing
because it's overpriced.

It's telling us that
people don't like it

because they think it
doesn't do anything.

It's closed, end-to-end.

We didn't know it wasn't
what people wanted,
butflisnfi.

They want slots,
they want choices,
they want options.

The way we buy stereos,
mix and match components.

John, listen to me.

Whoever said
the customer is
always right was,

I promise you, a customer.

It had skinheads in it.

She was liberating them.
Liberating the skinheads.

The ad didn't have
anything to do
with fucking skinheads!

We used them as
fucking extras.

Nobody even knows
they were skinheads!

I'm just saying,
the board had concerns...

You invented
lifestyle advertising.

And "our brand"
was my brand.

My job is to make
a recommendation
to the board.

We showed a lot
of happy people
drinking Pepsi.

We didn't say
the world was going to end
if you bought a Dr. Pepper!

Recommend that
we drop the price

and double
the marketing budget.

I can't.

And we showed the product!

We showed it being opened,
we showed it being poured,

being consumed!

What are you gonna do?
Recommend that
we kill the Mac?

I already have, Steve.

What?

When?

You think the secret to
yoursuccess

was not assuming
people knew what to do
with a can of soda?

I didn't kill
the ad, Steve!

I'm the only reason
it made it on the air!

Just now.

An hour ago,
I'm coming from
Markkula's house.

What did he say?

What did he say?
Invent something new.

I'll give you a team,
you can sit in Maui.

The resorts come
with couches.

Wait a rninute. Are you saying
you recommended
terminating the Mac?

Or you recommended taking me
off the Mac team?

We bought three spots
in the Super Bowl.

Two 30s and a 60.

And after we screened it,
the board wanted
that money back,

and they asked me to
sell off the spots.

Chiat/Day sold off
the two 30s,
but not the 60,

and I let it be known
to Lee Clow

that if he didn't try
very hard

to sell the last spot,
I wouldn't be unhappy.

If we drop the price
and double the budget...

You can't drop the price
or double the budget!

I mean, the only way
to do that is to take
money out of the Apple ll.

The Apple ll
should embarrass you.
It embarrasses me.

It doesn't embarrass
the shareholders.

I don't give a shit
about the shareholders!

That's why I hired you,
so I don't ever have to hear
about shareholders!

The shareholders
are my problem,

and the board represents
the shareholders!

That's how it works!

You sure it wasn't Lee Clow
who dragged his feet
selling the 60?

At my direction, Steve.

You think he would have
done that on his own,
taken it on himself?

Yeah. I think he would've
done what it took
to save it from you.

I was the only thing
protecting it!

You didn't want the ad

because you were trying
to kill the Mac: two months
before it launched!

You are fucking delusional!

(SIGHS)

Can I mention
something to you?
Sure.

I have no earthly idea
why you're here.

The story of why
and how you left Apple,

which is quickly
becoming mythologized,
isn't true.

I'm gonna take this
to the board myself.

Don't do that.
lam doing that.

You can't.

Why?

They believe you're
no longer necessary
to this company.

I get hate mail.

Death threats.

I get death threats!

My kids are getting taunted.

Why do people think
I fired you?

Joanna's gonna call
my name in a second.

JOANNA: Steve?
That was unrehearsed.

STEVE: Yeah, I'll be there
in just a second!

I gave you
your day in court.

You "gave" me?
I gave the board
a clear choice.

I said, "Do you want to
invest in the Apple ll
or the Mac?"

And they chose
the Apple ll.

The same people
who wanted to dump
the Super Bowl spot.

And then I got on
a plane to China.

Mr. Sculley, there's a call
for you on Line 1.

Or I almost got on a plane,
because I got a call
inthelounge.

Who made that call?
Doesn't matter.

STEVE: It matters to me.
Who made the call?

John Sculley.

MAN: John, if you get
on that plane,

you'll have lost your job
by the time it lands.

Steve's been
calling the board.
He wants you out.

SCULLEY: I left my bags
on the plane.

My shit's still somewhere
in Beijing.

I took a car back
to Cupertino in the middle
of the fucking night.

I know what time it is.

I need a quorum
here in one hour,
and I want Steve here, too.

STEVE: You took me
off the Mac,
and it was bad business.

The quorum call
was a homicide.

Right there!
That's the part
that's bullshit, my friend.

It was a suicide,
because you knew
your cards,

and I showed you mine.

I showed you mine,
and you did it anyway.

What did you think
I was going to do?

I'm okay losing,
but I'm not gonna forfeit.

I'm not okay losing.

SCULLEY: We're losing
market share,

and the Mac is losing money.

Our only hope
is the Apple ll,
which is stagnating

because of its
soon-to-be obsolete DOS.

Users are already rigging
their machines to run with
a CP/M operating system

that's been built
to run on Intel.

I can't put it
more simply than this.

We need to put our resources
into updating the Apple ll.

STEVE: By taking resources
from the Mac.

SCULLEY: It's failing.
That's a fact.

STEVE: It's overpriced.
There's no evidence
that it's...

I'm the evidence!

I'm the world's
leading expert
on the Mac, John.

What's your resume?

You're issuing
contradictory instructions,

you're insubordinate,
you make people miserable,

our top engineers
are fleeing to Sun,
Dell, HP.

Wall Street doesn't know
who's driving the bus.

We've lost hundreds
of millions in value,

and I'm the CEO
of Apple, Steve.

That's my resume.

But before that,
you sold carbonated
sugar water, right?

I sat in a fucking
garage with Wozniak
and invented the future.

Because artists lead
and hacks ask for
a show of hands!

All right. Well,
this guy's out of control.

I'm perfectly willing
to hand in
my resignation tonight,

but if you want me to stay,
you can't have Steve.

Settle him out.

He can keep a share of stock,
so he gets our newsletter.

He'll have to sever
his connection to Apple.

I'm dead serious.
I want the secretary
to call for a vote.

I fucking dare you.

You have done
an outstanding job
over the years

of cultivating the press,
and by that I mean
manipulating them

because none of them,
none of their editors,

none of their
editors' publishers,
to this day,

know that you forced it.

That you forced the board.

Even after I told you
exactly what they'd do,

which is exactly
what they did.

Unanimously.

I don't have any trouble
remembering that, John,

because of it being
the worst night of my life.

And I forced the vote
because I believed
I was right.

I still believe I'm right.
And I'm right.

Now, I bled that night.

And I don't bleed.

But time's done its thing.

And I really
haven't thought about it
in a while.

I absolutely understand
why you're upset.

And I want people
to know the truth, too.

JOANNA: It's time.

Got it.

You're gonna end me,
aren't you?

STEVE: You're being
ridiculous.

I'm gonna sit center court
and watch you do it yourself.

Then I'm gonna order
a nice meal
with a '55 Margaux,

and sign some autographs.
Jesus Christ...

You want some advice,
Pepsi Generation?

Don't send Woz out to slap me
around in the press.

Anybody else.
You, Markkula, Arthur Rock.

Anyone but Rain Man.

Don't manipulate him
like that.

Whatever you may think,
I'm always gonna protect him.

Come on, Steve.

That's what men do.

We can't start late.

I don't think there was
any way to detect a chip
on my shoulder.

Did you know,
back at Bandley

the Mac team gave
an award every year

to the person who could
stand up to you?

No.

JOANNA: I won.

Three years in a row.

Cool.

This... This...

This Guy Kawasaki
in Macworld...

He accidentally
got it right, didn't he?

You've been dragging
your feet on the NeXT OS

until you can figure out
what Apple's going to need.

(CLICKS TONGUE)

Even if that were true,
it doesn't sound
that diabolical to me.

STAGE MANAGER:
Hey. We're ready for you!

(RUMBLING)

I'm your closest confidante,
your best friend.

Your thing...
What do you call it?

Your "work wife."

The whole time!
The last three years...

When did you change
your mind

and start building
the Steve Jobs
Revenge Machine?

(EXHALES DEEPLY)

STAGE MANAGER:
House to half.

Do you remember Skylab?

It was an unmanned
satellite NASA sent up
in the early '70s

on a data-gathering mission.

The thing is,
when they sent it up,

they didn't know yet
how they were going to
get it back.

But they felt like
they were close enough

that in the eight years
it was going to be up there,
they'd figure it out.

STAGE MANAGER:
They're on their way now.

STEVE: They didn't.

So, after eight years,

it came crashing down
in a 1 ,0OO-mile swath
across the Indian Ocean.

A little to the left,
a little to the right,

somebody could
have gotten hurt.

I really wanted to build
a computer for colleges.

The technology
just didn't catch up
as fast as I needed it to.

And you know
we're out of money.

MAN: Ladies and gentlemen,
the program will be
starting momentarily.

STEVE: But then,
Apple stopped innovating,
and I saw something better.

Joanna, I know schools
aren't going to buy

a $13,000 dictionary
with good speakers.

You know I know that.

But Apple will.

Because Avie Tevanian
is going to build them
exactly the OS they need.

They're going to
have to buy me, too.

For half a billion
dollars in stock,

and end-to-end control
on every product.

(SCOFFS)

(SIGHS)

(CROWD CHEERING IN DISTANCE)

(CONTINUES CHEERING)

WOMAN: Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome...

(REEL WHIRRING)

REPORTER 1: (ON TV)
More than a year
after it was first unveiled

to industry insiders,

the NeXT Computer
is finally available
in stores.

REPORTER 2: And it appears
to be two strikes
in a row for Steve Jobs.

REPORTER 3:
Students and educators
are finding it difficult

to justify
the machine's high cost.

REPORTER 4: So much for
the Black Cube.

NeXT just sold
its factory to Canon,

and laid off
half its employees.

In the world of computers,
it's kill or be killed.

Apple Computer has
fallen on hard times.

It is laying off
about 2,500 people.

REPORTER 1:
Apple is continuing
to lose market share

with no new innovations
in the pipeline

except the Newton,
a pet project of CEO
John Sculley.

REPORTER '2: if you really
want to be mobile,
you want a Newton PDA.

But, then again,
maybe you don't.

REPORTER 3:
It turns handwriting
into computer text.

Hey, Dolph,
take a memo on your Newton.
"Beat up Martin."

(SHOUTS)
(YELPS)

REPORTER 1: In 1980,
Apple had 30%
of the market.

Today, Apple has only 3.2%.

REPORTER '2: That's it.
John Sculley has been
fired from Apple.

DAVID LETTERMAN:
And what about this
Internet thing?

Do you know
anything about that?

Uh, it is the big,
new thing.

Rumors are flying around
Apple Computer once again,

over who will
take over the helm.

In the news at this hour,
a remarkable
high-tech reunion.

FEMALE REPORTER: Well,
it's happening.

In a billion-dollar
shake-u p,

Apple is purchasing
NeXT Computer's

operating system,
which may mean...

MALE REPORTER: ls the
prodigal son returning?
Bet On if.

Guess what. Mac is back.

Apple co-founder
Steven Jobs...

Steve Jobs...
Steve Jobs...

FEMALE REPORTER:
Steve Jobs is returning
to Apple.

STEVE: If you want to beam
your digital photographs
from your digital camera,

it's built into every product.
We're going to the new
generation of I/O.

12-megabyte USB. Two ports.

We're leaving
the old Apple I/O behind.

Stereo surround sound
built into every product.

A great keyboard,
and the coolest mouse
you've ever seen.

This time,
we used actual mice.
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)

We're opening the house
in 10 minutes. Steven?

Do you want to stop
horsing around?

Bless my eyes.

That's Steve Wozniak,
sitting out there.

(ALL CHEERING)

STEVE: Give yourselves
a treat and ask Woz

if he happens to have
the correct time.

(ALL LAUGHING)

I have the correct time,
and we're running out of it.

"A great keyboard."

A great keyboard
and the coolest mouse
you've ever seen.

This is what those things
look like today.

(ALL GROAN)

And now, I'd like to show you
what they're going
to look like tomorrow.

This is the iMac.

(ALL CHEERING)

(CONTINUES CHEERING)

That was cool.

Why did I like that
better than I usually do?

JOANNA: I don't know.
Something was different.

CUNNINGHAM: Hey, stupid!

I think she's talking
to one of you guys.
(ALL LAUGH)

CUNNINGHAM: Did you notice
a difference?
STEVE: That's what I'm...

The exit signs were off.

CUNNINGHAM: Full blackout.

You did it!

We wired all the exit
lights to our board.

They go out with the cue
for seven seconds,

then come back on again,
in theory.

We think that's legal?

No, we're very certain
it's not.

You want to see
some quotes?

Let's hold off on those.
No, he'll like them.

(MOUTHING)

I'll show them
to you later.

I'll take them now.

(WHISPERS) I'm sorry.

Pick it up
from there, please.

We only have
a couple of minutes,
so let's just do the 360.

STEVE: We're going to bring
out a wireless camera
we stole from Panasonic.

(ALL LAUGH)

I'll show you
what this looks like.

The whole thing
is translucent.
You can see into it.

(MAN WHISTLES)

How's that
for a compromise, Woz?

You still can't get into it,
but you can see into it.

Fair enough.

We put stereo speakers
in front,
infrared right up here.

CD-ROM drive in the middle.

ALL: Nice.

Dual stereo headphone jacks,

and all the connectors
are inside

one beautiful
little door, here.

(ALL EXCLAIM)

Ethernet, USB.

Even though this
is a full-blooded
Macintosh, we're targeting it

for the number-one use
the consumers tell us
they want a computer for.

VVhiCh is...
STAGE MANAGER:
Let's hold it, please!

Hold it.

The answer was
"the lnternet."
(ALL LAUGH)

Joanna?
Yeah.

Just stand in front of me.

I want to look
at these quotes, but I don't
want Joel to know.

They're all great.

"It is not only
the coolest-looking computer
introduced in years,

"but a chest-thumping
statement

"that Silicon Valley's
original dream company
is no longer somnambulant."

It's a word.
It means "sleepwalking."
STAG E IVIANAG E RI Steve?

I'm sorry, we have to
clear the house if we're
going to start on time.

We're absolutely
starting on time.
We're going to start on time.

Here, take this.

Everybody, that's it.

They've got to mop the stage,
reset, and open the house.

I love you guys.

(ALL CHEERING)

Andy, come on back
a minute.

Which one?
STEVE: Hertzfeld.

(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)

STEVE: Forbes calls it
an industry-altering success.

Look here.

Why haven't we ever
slept together?

We're not in love. Look.

STEVE: Sculley.

JOANNA: Look what he said.

"He has implemented
the same simple strategy

"that made Apple
so successful
15 years ago.

"Make hit products
and promote them
with terrific marketing."

That was nice of him.

It was.

I meant it.

Sightings of J.D. Salinger
are more common
than John Sculley.

I wasn't being sarcastic.
It was nice of him.

Do you talk to him?

No.

You haven't talked
to him since '88?

I'd have told you
if I did.

Doesn't matter.

I don't want people thinking
they can cross me

and then, boom,
15 years later,
I'm cool with it.

I was kidding.

What's wrong with you
this morning?

Let's get off the stage.

"The only thing
Apple's providing now
is leadership in oolors."

Don't worry about it.

What does Bill Gates
have against me?

I don't know. You're both
out of your minds.

Listen to me.

He dropped out
of a better school
than I dropped out of.

But he's a tool bag.
I'll tell you why.

Make everything
all right with Lisa.

You know, Joanna?
Boundaries.

You've come to
my apartment at 1 :00 a.m.
and cleaned it.

So tell me where
the boundary is.

There.
Let's say it's there.
(snens)

If I give you some
real projections,

will you promise
not to repeat them
from the stage?

What do you mean,
"Real projections"?

What have you been
giving me?

Conservative projections.

Marketing's been
lying to me?

We've been
managing expectations
so that you don't not.

What are
the real projections?

We're going to sell
a million units
in the first 9O days.

(BANGS ON TABLE)
20,000 a month after that.

Holy shit!
Yeah.

You see? You wait
long enough, and...

What's more,
32% of the sales

are going to go to people
buying a computer
for the first time.

And 12% are going to people
using some kind
of Windows machine.

That's what Bill Gates
has against you.

And it'll be
the fastest-selling computer
in history.

You brought the company
back from life support

after going through
the misery of
laying off 3,000 people

and cutting 70% of
the product line.

So, Steven,

it's over.

You're going to win.

It would be criminal
not to enjoy this moment.

I'm enjoying it.

Make things
all right with Lisa.

You know...
Come on.

Idonfihke
having less privacy
than other people have.

Does being
a multi-billionaire take
some of the sting off that?

No.

All Lisa did...
All Lisa did was
give her blessing.

Chrisann sold
the house and...

JOANNA: And Lisa could have
done what?

How was she supposed
to stop her mother
from selling her own house?

Thatlbought
for the two of them.

How was she supposed
to stop her?

Voicing an objection
would have been a step
in the right direction.

You don't think
you're having
a bizarre overreaction

to a 19-year-old girl
allowing her mother
to list her own house?

She could've tried.

How is she supposed
to stop her mother,
that particular mother...

She gave Chrisann
her blessing to sell
the house,

and she did it to spite me!

I don't care if
she put a pipe bomb
in the water heater!

You're going to
fix it, now.

She's been acting weird
for months.
She's turned on me.

Fix it.
What the...

Fix it, Steve.
Take it easy!

Fix it or I quit.
How about that?

I quit and you never
see me again.
How about that?

Tell me what's wrong
with you this morning.

What's been wrong
with me for 19 years.

(BREATHING SHAKILY)

I've been a witness,
and I tell you
I've been complicit.

I love you, Steve.
You know how much.

I love that you don't oare
how much money
a person makes,

you care what they make.

But what you make
isn't supposed to be
the best part of you.

When you're a father,

that's what's supposed to be
the best part of you.

And it's caused me
two decades of agony,
Steve, that it is for you

the worst.

(SIGHS)

It's a little thing.
It's a very small thing.

(SNIFFLES) Fix it.

Fix it now,
or you can contact me
at my new job,

working anywhere I want.

I don't happen to think
it is a little deal.

She knew that...
JOANNA: No.

No.
I bought the house
for the two of...

What do you mean, "No"?
I mean, no.

The house has nothing to do
with why you're angry
at Lisa.

I assure you,
the house has everything

to do with why
I'm angry at Lisa.

Have you ever heard
the phrase
"reality distortion field"?

Yes.

As in, "Steve's
reality distortion field"?

I've heard it.
I've read it.

It's been sung
to me by Joan Baez.

What you call
a reality distortion field,

and I'm pretty sure
you're the one
who coined the phrase,

is the reason we're here.

I know that.

If I traded in my
bank account for a dollar

every time somebody
told me something
was impossible,

I'd come out ahead.

I know that, too.
What's the problem?

My problem?
It sure isn't the house.

Jo, I...

It's that you told her
you weren't going
to pay for Harvard.

That child.
That earnest,
un-ironic: kid.

She told you I wasn't
paying her tuition?

I should have hit you
with something heavy
a long time ago.

Lisa told you I wasn't
paying her tuition?

Andy told me that.

Which one?

Hertzfeld.

How would Hertzfeld know?

He wrote Harvard
a check for $25,000
to cover the semester.

Are you fucking...

He paid her tuition?

Isn't that why you
just asked to see him?

No, I asked to see him
about something...

Did you tell her
you weren't going
to pay for college?

Yes, because...
How could you do that?

Because her mother,
who is also her landlord...

Hertzfeld? I was ranting!

I was just talking!
You think I would...

I was pissed off
because Lisa was trying
to piss me off, Joanna.

That was her intent!

You obviously scared
the hell out of her!

Hertzfeld wrote
a check to Harvard...
Pay for...

Is she here yet?

I'm sure she is.

Can you have someone
bring her back?

Yes.

(EXHALES DEEPLY)

Thank you.

You know,

my grandmother always
used to say to me...

I don't give a shit, Yentl.

I'll have someone
get Lisa.
Thank you.

And if you see Hertzfeld...

(KNOCK ON DOOR)
HERTZFELD: It's Andy!

Speak of
the devil's chief engineer.

Go. Come on in.

You look great today.

Thank you.
Doesn't she?

She looks fantastic.
Always does.

Get out.

Well, I think I know
why I'm here.

Do you?
Steve...

Did you send
the check yet?

Yes.

So Harvard got a tuition
check from Andy Hertzfeld
to pay for Lisa?

I don't think
they look that carefully.

I don't think they'd notice
the check didn't come
from you.

Close one.

This was almost
embarrassing for me.

(SIGHS)

I understand how...
I'll wire you
the money today.

I understand how you feel.
And I do apologize, I do.

But, let me tell you
my thinking.

I can't even think of
an appropriate analogy
to describe what you did.

I knew you guys
would fix things.
You always do.

But in the meantime,
if the money wasn't there,

she'd miss
a semester of school.

Yeah.

And she'd have to
tell her friends why.

And she needed things.
She needed socks.

What?

It's cold in Cambridge.
She needed warm socks.

You gave her socks?

Well, I gave her money
for socks.

You don't get to
deputize yourself
as her interim.

You don't get to
override my decisions.
Do you understand?

You don't get to act
like you're her father.

Somebody had to.

What the fuck did you
just say to me?

I've known her
since she was six.

I also consider...

Chrisann's my friend,
outside of what you and I...

(STAMMERS) Outside of
our relationship.

So you're like
a family advisor.

I'm a family friend.

Then you probably know
that Lisa's been
seeing a therapist.

Yeah.

For many years.
Yeah.

Without my knowledge.

That really
wasn't my business.

(CHUCKLES) I'm fascinated
by what you think is
and isn't your business.

Lisa's been
going to a therapist,
and she likes it.

And would love
for you and Chrisann
to go with her.

And the reason
you know that is because

you're the one that
recommended the therapist.

Well, I know a guy.

No, I mean you're the one
who recommended that
she see a therapist.

You know what?

It was a while ago,
and I don't remember
how the whole...

You told Chrisann
that Lisa should see
a therapist.

Steve, you're stigmatizing.
It's a perfectly norm...

(SIGHS)

It's not... My thing was,
how can it hurt?

Let's find out.

Chrisann is my friend.

What was the reason
you gave?

You mean...

What was the reason
you gave Chrisann why Lisa
should see a therapist?

I don't remember.
We were talking
and I said...

It's pretty much
what I just said,

that it certainly
couldn't hurt.

You didn't say
that Lisa needed
a strong male role model?

I did.

I think it's a miracle
she's not robbing banks

with the Symbionese
Liberation Army.

There is no reason
in the world
why she should be nioe.

But she is.

So I helped.

Because somebody had to.

I'll wire the money
to you this afternoon.

You threatened me
a long time ago.

Sorry?

A long time ago,
you threatened me once.

People are attracted
to people with talent.

People without it
find that threatening.

(SNAPS FINGERS)

Maybe you should see
a therapist.
Certainly couldn't hurt.

I meant you literally
threatened me.

At Flint,
right before the Mac launch.

I was recompiling.
I was trying to debug
the voice demo.

And you said if I couldn't
find a solution,

you'd call me out
in front of the audience.

Did it say "hello"?

It did.

No need to thank me.

Why do you want people
to dislike you?

I don't want people
to dislike me.

I'm indifferent to whether
they dislike me.

Since it doesn't matter,
I always have.

Really?

I've always
liked you a lot.

That's too bad.

Knock 'em dead.

Thank you.

What is remarkable,
what's hard to fathom
but true

is that for a given
clock rate, a PowerPC chip

is twice as fast
as a Pentium ll chip.

In other words,
a 266 megahertz G3 chip

is twice as fast
as a 266 megahertz Pentium ll.

Or

a 266 G3 is equal to
about 500 megahertz.

Take a look at BYTE
magazine's BYTE Marks,
the gold standard for any...

(KNOCK ON DOOR)

Come in.

(DOOR OPENS)

I sent someone
into the lobby.
They found her and she...

Where is she?

She said she'd rather
not come back.

Why?

That was it.

I'm going out there myself.
You can't.

You can't.
It'll be a scene out
of Hard Day's Night.

(KNOCK ON DOOR)
(DOOR OPENS)

Excuse me?

Hey, Joel.

Andy said it was okay
to come back.

Which one?
Andy Cunningham.

I can't do this forever.

I need one of them
to change their name.

You call
Andy Cunningham "Andrea."

It doesn't matter
what I call them.

I know who I'm talking about
when I'm talking.

I need everyone else
to call them
different names.

Give me one second.

Can you go get her
for me, please?

I just talked to
Andy Hertzfeld.

I'm just trying to
scrub this out
of my brain with Drano.

But I do want
to talk to Lisa.

Okay, just

stay cool.
Okay.

Thank you.

Hey, Steve.

How are you feeling?

I'm feeling good, Joel.
How about you?

I don't think I could be
in your business.
It changes too quickly.

Well, I'd hang on,
'cause yours is about to

start changing
pretty quickly, too.

This is the third time
in 14 years
I'm writing about you.

What do you think so far?

(KNOCK ON DOOR)

Excuse me.

Uh, Avie's looking for you.
He has a new shark.

Want to come backstage
for a second?

JOEL: Sure.

Who's this one?

Alan Turing.

Single-handedly won
World War ll and,

for an encore,
invented the computer.

He won't be part of
the campaign, though.

JOEL: Why not?

STEVE: Because you just had
to ask me who he was.

Can I see new shark?

I like it better
than the old shark.
AVIEI Sharks.

Sharks.

How many sharks
did you go through?

A couple.
This is the 39th.

We're on the record.

Thirty-nine sharks.

Okay.

You know what's special
about this shark?
What?

No, I'm really asking,
because it looks exactly

like the other
38 sharks to me.

STEVE: Let me see it
with the cue.
From the profile.

STAGE MANAGER:
This is Cue 92-B.

STEVE: This is a profile here.

And this is what
it looks like from the back.

And one more thing.
It eats Pentium notebooks
as a light snaok.

This is the shark.

I really like it.

Nobody gets it right
the first time,

but I should have been
shown this shark
15, 2O fish ago.

You probably were.

Lock it in.

10 minutes.

He killed himself by taking
a bite of a poison apple.
Alan Turing.

Yeah. There should be
statues of that man.

His name should be
on the lips of
schoolchildren.

The rainbow flag Apple
with a bite taken out.

That's where it came from?

No, we picked it off a list
of friendly-sounding words.

But wouldn't it be great
if that had been
the story behind it?

WOZNIAKI Steve.

Kinda liked the last shark.

AVIE: Fuck you.
(CHUCKLES)

I wanted to ask you a favor.

My friend, a long time ago,

you asked me a favor
before a product launch,
and I said no.

You wanted rne
to acknowledge...
Hang on.

If you're about to say
you were wrong,

I want to prepare
this journalist.

I was 100% right.

And you were
spectacularly wrong.

But I still
owe you a favor,
so name it.

(SIGHS) Steve.

But it can't be
about acknowledging
the Apple ll team.

Acknowledge the Apple ll team.

How about in private?

No. No.
Is this a prank?

Because I'm trying to
remember that a 300
megahertz G3 chip...

Just the top guys.

Steve.

Excuse me, okay?
Yep.

One second.

She said she'd rather not.

What do you mean?

She's sitting
with her friends,

and she said she'd
rather not come back.

Okay. Tell her...

Take her aside,
I don't want to

embarrass her
in front of her friends,

but tell her I just scared
the shit out of Andy,

and this time,
nobody's paying
her fucking...

All right.
Don't say that.

But do your thing,
where you sound old
and wise

because of the broad,
tragic: European canvas
of your life.

You know I wasn't
born in a 19th
century shtetl, right?

Please tell her
it's important.

Everything all right?
Yeah.

There are people
around here, man,

including a member
of the press.

Isee him.

Woz.

Just the top guys,
the ones who are
getting laid off.

(CLEARS TH ROAT)

Listen, okay?
Last year, Apple lost
one billion dollars.

I don't even know
how that's possible.

You were less than 90 days
from being insolvent.

I had three
different accountants
try to explain it to rne.

The whole place has
to be streamlined.

Start with two of
the accountants.
I started with the...

Joel, could you
come off-stage?

We're going to
go backstage.
Leave him right there.

I started with the Apple ll
team because we don't
make that anymore.

Just acknowledge
the top guys.

Have a mimosa and relax.

You will not blow me off
right now, Steve!

The top guys--

There are no top guys.
All right?

On the Apple ll team,
there are no top guys.

They're B players.

And B players discourage
the A players.

And I want A players
at Apple, and not Dell.

They're not B players,
and I'm a betterjudge
of that!

Less than 90 days
from insolvency.

In part, because somebody
thought the Newton wasn't
a box of garbage.

Joel, could you
come off stage please?
Leave him!

I'm talking about...

You guys designed and shipped
a little box of garbage
while I was gone.

I'm talking
about the Apple ll!

Which is not
just a crucial part
of this company's history,

it is a crucial part
of the history
of personal computing!

For a time.

The least you oan do,
if you're going to
downsize these people...

They're going to live
in the biggest houses
ofanyone

on the unemployment line.

...is to acknowledge them!

Acknowledge them
and the Apple ll
during this launch!

This is a new animal.

This whole place
was built by the Apple ll.

You were built
by the Apple ll.

As a matter of fact,
I was destroyed

by the Apple ll
and its open system,

so that hackers and hobbyists
could build ham radios,
or something!

And then,
it nearly destroyed Apple

when you spent
all your money on it

and developed a grand total
of no new products.

The Newton.
The little box of garbage.

You guys came up
with the Newton.

You, like,
want people to know that?

This is a product launch,
notaluncheon.

And the last thing
I want to do
is connect the iMac: to...

To the only
successful product that
this company has ever made.

I'm sorry to be blunt,
but that happens
to be the truth.

The Lisa was a failure.
The Macintosh was a failure.

IdonWHke
talking like this,

but I am tired of being Ringo
when I know I was John.

Everybody loves Ringo.

And I'm tired of
being patronized by you!

You think John became John
by winning a raffle, Woz?

You think he tricked somebody,

or hit George Harrison
over the head?

He was John
because he was John.

He was John
because he wrote
Ticket to Ride.

And I wrote the Apple ll.

Everybody?

I want to clear
the auditorium.
Nobody moves!

You made
a beautiful board which,
by the way,

you were willing to
give out for free,

so don't tell me
how you built Apple.

If it weren't for me,
you'd be the easiest "A"
at Homestead High School.

These people live and die
by your praise,
so here's your chance.

Acknowledge that
something good happened

that you weren't
in the room for.

No.
WOZNIAK: Steve!

Do it.

It's right. It's...

It's right.

Sorry, but no.

Then let me put it
another way.

I don't think there's a man
who's done more

to advance
the democratization
that comes

with personal computing
than I have,

but you've never had
any respect for me.
Now why is that?

I'd at least consider
the possibility

that it's because you've
never had any for me.

(DOOR OPENS)

What the hell
is going on here?

Nothing.

Thank you for your time.

It's done.
She's coming back.

You came a half-inch
from putting this company
out of business.

Now, who do I see
about that?

I'm letting you keep
your job.

You get a pass.

You know,
when people used to ask me

what the difference was
between me and Steve Jobs,

I would say Steve
was the big-picture guy

and I liked
a solid workbench.

When people ask me
what the difference is now,
I say

Steve's an asshole.

Your products are better
than you are, brother.

That's the idea, "brother."

And knowing that,
that's the difference.

It's not binary.

You can be decent and gifted
at the same time.

JOANNA: He didn't mean it.

Yeah, he did.

He's a temperamental guy.

No, he's not.

It's like, five minutes
before every launch,

everyone goes to a bar,
gets drunk,

and tells me
what they really think.

(CHUCKLES)

She's coming
to your dressing room.

JOANNA: I told you
to make things
all right with Lisa.

I didn't say you had to
settle every blood feud
you have.

STEVE: The last time
blood feuds weren't settled,
I lost the cover of Time.

Though, for the life of me,
I still don't know

what the hell Dan Kottke
was mad at me about.

Kottke didn't lose you
the cover of Time.

Of course he did.

Would you like me
to demonstrate
your capacity to be wrong

when you're certain
you're right?

Dan Kottke told
Time magazine
that I was denying...

Do you remember
the cover?

Oi Time?

Yes.
Yes.

What was it?

What are you talking about?

What was on the cover?

A computer.

No, it was a sculpture
of a computer.

It was a sculpture.

Time would have had
to have commissioned it
months in advance.

You were never
in the conversation
for Man of the Year.

Nobody lost you anything.

So, what else
are you sure about?

I don't know how
I could've missed that.

Reality distortion.

No, seriously.
Seriously.

Don't try to win
an argument with Lisa.

Just say you were wrong.

(KNOCK ON DOOR)

Come on in, honey!
(DOOR OPENS)

It's not "honey."

John! Get in, get in.
Get out of the hall.

I was taken
in the side entrance.
I'll go out the same way.

No one will see me.
How are you, Joanna?

JOANNA: I'm good, John.
I'm just surprised
to see you.

Everyone here really
appreciates the quote
you gave to Forbes.

You didn't have
to do that.

SCULLEY: My pleasure.

JOANNA: If you want,
I can slip you in the back
once the house lights go out.

SCULLEY: I'm just here
to say "good luck."
Okay.

JOANNA: You just have
a couple of minutes.

Would you try to find...

Yeah.

(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)

You're a good man, John.

So, I brought you a present.

The Newton.

If you don't take
it out of the box,
you'll be able to sell it.

Which is more
than I can say.

Everything all right there?

What? No.
(CLEARS THROAT) Yeah.

Just something
Joanna pointed out to me.

I missed something
so obvious about...

It doesn't matter.

Look, Wall Street's gonna
sit back and wait to see
how you do as CEO,

so don't let
any fluctuation bother you
for the first 12 months.

Day traders
are gonna respond.

I don't need to school you.

Is this your way of
telling me I shouldn't
have killed the Newton?

The most efficient
animal on the planet
is the condor.

The most inefficient animals
on the planet are humans.

(CHUCKLES) Well,
you shouldn't have
killed it for spite.

That's bad business.
Don't do that.

But a human with a bicycle
becomes the most
efficient animal.

And the right computer...

A friendly, easy computer
that isn't an eyesore,

but rather sits on your desk
with the beauty
of a tensor lamp,

the right computer
will be a bicycle
for the mind.

Do you like it?

I was given back.

And what if,
instead of it being
in the right hands,

it was in everyone's hands?

Everyone in the world.

SCULLEY: We'd be talking about
the most tectonic shift
in the status quo since...

Even

I don't know why you've
always been interested
in my adoption history,

but you said, it's not like
someone looked at me
and gave me back.

But that is what happened.

You're telling me
you have the right computer?

It's called Macintosh.

A lawyer couple
adopted me first,

then gave me back
after a month.

They changed their mind.

Then my parents
adopted me.

My biological mother
had stipulated
that whoever took me

had to be college-educated,
wealthy, and Catholic.

Paul and Clara Jobs
were none of those things,

so my biological mother
wouldn't sign
the adoption papers.

What happened?

There was a legal battle
that went on for a while.

My mother said
she refused to love me
for the first year.

You know, in case
they had to give me back.

You can't refuse to
love someone, Steve.

Yeah, it turns out
you can.

What the hell can
a one-month-old do

that's so bad
that his parents
give him back?

There's nothing
a one-month-old can do.

Have you ever thought
about trying to find
your biological father?

I've met
my biological father.

For that matter,
so have you.

It's called Macintosh.

Mr. Steve Jobs!

Jandali.
Say hello to John Sculley.

Jandali owns the place,

and John's the CEO of Pepsi,

but I'm trying to get him
to move to Cupertino.

Put a dent in the universe.

You eat vegan as well?

You're kidding me.

No, I'll eat anything.

Why don't you
start us off with

the Mediterranean
lettuce salad
with purslane, mint...

My sister found him.

Does he know?

No. In fact,
he bragged to Mona

that Steve Jobs
comes in the restaurant
all the time.

You don't want to...
No.

SCULLEY: Don't you think
you should talk to him?

He'd probably find
a reason to sue me.

Oh, Steve...

John, if you're here
about your legacy,

you need to form
a line behind Wozniak.

(SIGHS) Wozniak's gonna
be fine. I'm the guy
who fired Steve Jobs.

"Rich, college-educated,
and Catholic."

(KNOCK ON DOOR)

Steve, it's time.

(CLICKS TONGUE)
I've gotta go.

Did I do this?
Screw it up?

Let's let it go now.

It has to be time.

Come be our CEO.

Yeah, okay.

(LAUGHS)

(SNAPS FINGERS)

It was the stylus, John.

What?

I killed the Newton
because of the stylus.

If you're holding a stylus,

you can't use the other five
that are attached
to your wrist.

Things we could have
done together.

God, the things
we could've done.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

I'm paying your tuition.

Are you crazy?
Of course I'm paying
your tuition.

I must have misunderstood you
when you said you weren't
paying my tuition.

STEVE: You and your mom
selling the house
was a hostile thing to do.

She needed the money.

She always needs the money.

She needs a doctor.
She has a sinus infection.

She's had the same
sinus infection since 1988.

I'm gonna take oare
of my mother.
I'm sorry if that angers you.

It does anger me,
because you're a kid

and it's not your job
to take care of your mother.

Is that how yours died?

Guys, um, step away, please.
Give them some room.

When your mom is 9O
and can't feed herself,
you can take care of her.

But right now, she's 45,
perfectly healthy,
and can't feed herself.

You're supposed to
work hard at school
and be 19, and that's it.

I'll take care
of your mother.

Well, keep up
the good work.

What the hell
do you want from me?
I was sent for.

Iboughther
a house for $400,000.

It's worth twice
that much today!

She sold it for
two magic rocks
and a bowl of soup.

It was her house.

She used that money
to travel through Europe.

Money which you
make her beg for.

Steve...
STEVE: Don't even start
with that.

Going to Andy
and asking for the money?

That was so off-the-charts
over the line...

I did not do that.

Andy came to me.

Everybody have an opinion
on this?

I'm sorry, guys.
In 30 seconds,
you're going to be late.

She spends
the money on antiques,

and then sells them for
a fraction of what she paid.

And she does it with money
I gave to her for you!

Steve...

You came to me hysterical
when you were 13,

asking if you could
live with me...

I was not hysterical.

...bec:ause your mom
was screaming at you
every day.

And 13 was
the second time
I asked you.

The stress of her life
as a spiritual healer.

I don't believe
I said you're a bad guy.
But if I did, lam sorry.

Something happened
to you at school.

Some first semester
core class that all freshmen
are required to take...

I read Time.

What?

I have Internet access
atschooL

I read an old copy
of Time,

and I asked my mom
some questions
about my family history.

That was... Time wrote
a mangled piece ofjournal.

You were never
supposed to read that.

I had two different
Harvard statisticians

try to reverse-engineer
the equation

that you came up with
to prove that 28%

of American men
could be my father!

Honey,LH

You know,
my mother might be
a troubled woman,

but what's your excuse?

That's why I'm not impressed
with your story, Dad!

It's that you knew
what I was going through,

and you didn't do
anything about it.

And that makes you
an unconscionable coward.

And not for nothing,
but "think" is a verb,
all right?

Making "different"
an adverb.

You're asking people
to think differently,

and you can talk about
the Bauhaus movement
and Braun

and "Simplicity
is sophistication,"
and lssey Miyake uniforms,

and Bob Dylan lyrics
all you want,
but that thing

looks like Judy Jetson's
Easy-Bake oven.

(CROWD APPLAUDING)

(APPLAUDING CONTINUES)

(ELEVATOR STOPS)

(DOOR OPENS)

STEVE: Hey!

LISA: Oh, gee,
you're gonna start late.

You know what
"Lisa" stood for?

What?

The computer. The Lisa.
Do you know
what it stood for'?

I'm sorry I said
that about the iMac:.
It's not what I really think.

Behind my back,
at the office,
you know what it stood for?

Local lnteg rated
System Architecture.

I was five!
Why couldn't you just lie?

I did.

Of course it was named
after you.

"Local Integrated
System Architecture"
doesn't even mean anything.

Why'd you say it wasn't
all those years?

I honestly don't know.

Why'd you say
you aren't my father?

I'm poorly made.

It's after 9:00,
you're gonna be late.

I don't care.

You're writing
for the Crimson.
What?

The Apple chapter
of the Harvard
Alumni Association

tells me you're writing
for the Crimson.

Oh, yeah,
a little bit. Essays...

I'd like to read one.

Sure.

No, I mean now.
I'd like to read
one of your essays now.

Come on,
you've got to go on stage.

The iMac: will not be launched
until you give me
one of your essays,

so the world
is waiting for you.

JOANNA: I'm really sorry,
guys!

Good luck.

Gonna put music
in your pocket.

What?

100 songs.
1,000 songs. 500 songs.

Somewhere between
500 and 1,000 songs,
right in your pocket,

because I can't stand
looking at that inexplicable
Walkman anymore.

You're carrying around
a brick playing
a cassette tape.

We're not savages.

So I'm gonna put
1,000 songs in your pocket.

You can do that?

Mmm-hmm.

You want to watch
from backstage?

Okay.

Go, Cue 1.

(CROWD CHEERING)

You remember
that painting you did
on the original Mac?

I do.

ANNOUNCER:
Ladies and gentlemen,

Steve Jobs.

(CROWD CHEERING)

Woz.

Whoo!

(COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING)

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