I don't want you to think of this as just a fiIm...
...some process of converting eIectrons and magnetic impuIses...
...into shapes and figures and sounds.
No. Listen to me.
We're here to make a dent in the universe.
Otherwise, why even be here?
We're creating a compIeteIy new consciousness...
...Iike an artist or a poet.
That's how you have to think of this.
We're rewriting the history of human thought with what we're doing.
Right. WeII, Steven, at the moment I'm more worried...
...about getting Iight on the actress. You know what I mean?
Simon. Excuse me a second.
-MicheIIe. -Yeah?
MicheIIe, waIk-- Yes, waIk towards Iens sIowIy.
Like this?
Okay. Right. Right.
I always wondered what it must have been like for Steve,
I mean, ever since we were kids, everything he ever did...
...was somewhere between a reIigious experience and some sort of crusade.
Like with this commercial,
It was practically a lENend from the time Ridley Scott filmed it,
Like the book, 1 984, with all the downtrodden masses,,,
,,,and that one huge spark of rebellion,,,
,,,against the evil Big Brother who ran everything,
Go, go, go.
Smoke it up, pIease.
And you three. That's right, you'II come with me.
The rest of you stay in the back.
--is a more powerful weapon than any fleet or army on Earth,
We are one people with one will,
One resolve, One cause,
Our enemies shall talk themselves to death,,,
,,,and we will bury them with their own confusion,
We shall prevail,
And then 1 3 years later,,,
,,,Steve has to stand up on that stage in Boston,
Man, that was,,,,
That was weird,
The era...
...of competition between us is over.
Thank you, BiII.
Thank you for standing with us.
The worId's a better pIace because of it.
Microsoft is gonna ruin AppIe. You can't trust them.
I know.
I reaIize that this news may be shocking to some of you.
I mean, Steve talking to Bill Gates,,,
,,,who's staring down like he's Big Brother, and he was,
For years, Steve almost went crazy over what Bill was doing to him,,,
,,,and now he's up there on that stage, in front of the world,,,
,,,telling everybody he's practically the Second Coming,
I mean, how do you get from there to here?
There was a disturbance on the campus,,,
,,,of the University of California at Berkeley,
The Santa Barbara campus reported a small-scale riot as well,
-The demonstrators said they were-- -More than 400 students,,,
,,,have taken part in the demonstration,
In the morning, police bENan launching tear-gas grenades to break up the crowd,
Student leaders are anxious to meet with university officials,,,
,,,to express their views on Vietnam,
-What the heII are we doing here? -Let's get out of here.
Stay back. HoId it. HoId it there. Get back.
-Don't drop the box! -I'm not!
Come on.
You okay?
Those guys think they're revoIutionaries.
-They're not. We are. -We are?
You know, Steve was never like you or me,
He always saw things differently, Even then when I was in Berkeley,,,
,,,I'd see something and just see kilobytes or circuit boards,,,
,,,while he'd see karma or the meaning of the universe,
Steve and I found this weird guy who was a hero around Berkeley,,,
,,,all because he found a way to beat the system,
This guy was called Captain Crunch,,,
...because he figured out this IittIe whistIe...
...that you found in boxes of Cap'n Crunch cereaI...
...had the same tones as AT&T's Iong-distance equipment.
So you got free phone calls anywhere in the world,,,
,,,with this thing I built called the blue box,
And then we tested it out by calling the pope,
-You taIk to him. -No, no, no.
They're putting you through to the pope?
I totaIIy figured it out, man.
I figured it out. I know what it's about. You know what it's about?
It's about power.
Right on, man.
It's Iike those weird countries...
...where the army guys overthrow the president.
The first thing that they take over...
...are the ways peopIe communicate, you know, radio, TV, newspapers.
Far-out, man.
Information is power.
I kept building the boxes, and Steve kept selling them,,,
,,,until one day, we almost got busted by some cops,,,
,,,who, thank God, didn't even know what a blue box was,
You might wanna try a haircut, boys.
So I started trying to build something that wasn't gonna get us in trouble,
-That's not a bIue box. -It's a computer.
Woz, we need bIue boxes, not computers.
-I got a reporter from Mercury News coming. -What for?
My mom phoned, toId them I was buiIding a computer, and they wanna do a story.
Woz, give me a break.
Hey, Iet me ask you something, seriousIy. Look at me.
Do you wanna get stuck here the rest of your Iife in this heIIhoIe?
Look, this is where I grew up, okay? It's not a heIIhoIe. Shoot.
I know your newspaper wiII find Steve's computer fascinating.
He's so ingenious. He buiIt it aII from spare parts.
Steven, the reporter is--
Hi. It caught fire.
My first chance at fame, and the computer catches fire.
Sorry.
When I was still at Berkeley,,,
,,,I kept making weird electronic gadgets,,,
,,,that were basically just jokes,
But, hey, you know, jokes are important,
The problem back then was me and Steve and his girlfriend,,,
,,,were pretty much broke,
So we ended up doing some pretty nutty things just to make money,
I know where we can get a job.
-Saw it on the buIIetin board there. -What kind of job?
I don't know. It seems sort of Iike show business.
Dressing up as Alice in Wonderland and stuff for a bunch of kids?
But, you know, Steve wasn't exactly cut out for that stuff,
Maybe in a past Iife...
...I was a poet or an artist.
You know, maybe you taIk about past Iives and aII that stuff...
...because, weII, you don't know who you are.
What the heII are you taIking about? I don't know who I am?
WeII, you don't. I mean, you toId me--
I don't wanna taIk about it with you or anyone eIse.
I'm just trying to heIp.
It wasn't Iike Steve and I Iost touch with each other...
...but he was definiteIy in pIaces I wasn't...
...Iike some ashram in India...
...and communes up in OrENon where they picked appIes aII day.
It was pretty much of a journey for Steve,
The kind that's as much on the inside as on the outside,
I mean, he definitely must have been to weird places,
See the new PIaymate? Miss October?
Hey, man, Miss August is way better.
Boobs out to here.
Honest to God, BaIImer. You have no cuIture.
Yeah, right. Like you go around reading PIato.
You're the onIy guy I know...
...who couId make furniture out of Playboys, for God sakes.
Look, you got enough to make a chair.
You don't have to worry about them moving...
-...because they're stuck together. -Get out.
-They're aII stuck together. -Sometimes back then,,,
,,,I could've throttled Bill Gates,
The guy couId turn any human situation into a poker game.
Forget about cIasses. Poker.
The fact that the worId might end tonight? No probIem, poker.
Or we're finaIIy deciphering the meaning of Iife.
More poker.
And winning, The guy'd have a hairball if he'd lost,,,
,,,which wasn't often, let me tell you,
-FuII house. -Oh, man.
Hey, BiII.
Our rooms were like a casino,
Actually, a messy casino,
And Bill slept wherever he fell down,
BiII, the revoIution's starting without us.
Bill and Paul Allen had known each other since they were kids,
If the word ''passion '' entered into their lives,,,
,,,it was for one thing; computers,
Especially this one made by some guy in Albuquerque of all places,
What is this, porn for engineers?
Oh, jeez, the AItair.
Am I missing something?
I mean, Miss October, I can understand, but what is this?
This is better than Miss October.
This is a computer.
-Oh, God. -The articIe says...
...that they need someone to figure out a Ianguage for it.
Right now it just sits there and bIinks.
Whoever taIks to this Ed Roberts has gotta go to AIbuquerque to see him.
You shouId go because you Iook better for that stuff than I do.
-I do not. -You both Iook terribIe.
-Just get used to it. -What are we supposed to do?
It's simpIe. You caII him and say you're PauI.
And then PauI goes to AIbuquerque and says he's PauI.
So, what are you gonna say?
Hi, Mr. Ed Roberts, pIease.
This is PauI AIIen, caIIing from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
It's our job to find out what this guy doesn't know that he needs...
...but does need and make sure he knows he does need it...
...and that we're the onIy ones to give him the answer.
What?
-Mr. Roberts? -Yes, sir, Mr. AIIen.
I teII you, I beIieve that we've got one hot product here.
The reason I can speak that way is because I've taken over 50 caIIs...
...from peopIe wanting to come to work with us on this AItair project.
So here's the deaI.
I snuck two women into my room.
And they're naked.
I mean, Iike, reaIIy naked.
You know, Iike, gorgeous naked.
So don't say I never did anything for you...
...because they're waiting for you right now.
Drop dead, BaIImer.
Oh, and I toId them...
...that you were writing a computer Ianguage...
...and right away, they start moaning for it.
''Oh, computer Ianguages.
Oh, Fortran.
Oh, Fortran.''
WiII you cut it out, Steve.
Excuse me, I'm just trying to save you guys from...
...wasting your entire Harvard reading week...
...over this Traf-O-Data simuIator...
...whiIe everyone eIse is out getting drunk or Iaid.
-PauI, are those parts binary? -I give up. I give up.
I give up. I give up.
Oh, duck, BiII.
Oh, you know, BiII, I think you gotta come up with a better pickup Iine.
Asking her what her SAT score is is definiteIy not gonna do it.
I forgot to write a Ioader.
That's not an improvement, BiII.
No, no. I just reaIized something. PauI's on his way to AIbuquerque.
I forgot to write the Ioader that connects the computer to the TeIetype.
And if he starts that machine, and it can't read the tape, we're dead,
UnIess he did it on the pIane, I'm finished.
-It's something I just reaIized. -I hope so.
If this AIbuquerque thing had worked, I was gonna quit Harvard.
Are you crazy?
I gotta be a doctor or something.
GynecoIogist, maybe.
-Come on. -I'm fIying.
Yeah, you're fIying.
-Here we go. -BaIImer.
You're the onIy guy I know who pays the strippers...
...to put their cIothes on.
Come on, drunkie.
Okay.
Hey, BiII...
...it's either the cIothes or you, but something...
...definiteIy needs to be hosed down.
-Sorry we faiIed. -Come on.
-Good night. -Sorry we faiIed.
Bill, Bill, Bill,
It's an AItair.
They gave it to us as a gift.
We bIew them away.
Woz, do we have to have mice?
Come on, I Iike mice. This is Irving.
Hey, man, you are putting poison into your body.
Hey, hey, come on. Give me those.
-That's french fries, man. -That's what I mean.
French fries, aII-American food. Come on.
I can't eat Iike you do.
Eating fruit aII the time. That's weird.
It's not weird. It's pure. Makes the souI pure.
Oh, wait, wait. You gotta Iisten to this. I got a great one today.
Did you hear about the drunk who came staggering out of the subway,,,
,,,and said, ''Man, I got lost in some guy's basement,
You should've seen the set of trains he had''?
--the Bay Area Dial-a-Joke Line, making your day a barrel of laughs,
I got a new book of PoIish jokes.
Man, it'II keep me going for years.
-Why? -Why?
It makes peopIe Iaugh.
I got peopIe phoning in every day just to hear my Iatest joke.
It makes their day better.
Are you sure this thing's gonna work?
-If it doesn't catch fire. -Don't even joke.
I Iike jokes.
Jokes make me feeI good.
You know, I hired a private detective today.
I wanna find my mother.
My reaI mother.
You never taIk about that stuff with me.
That part about being adopted and aII.
Guy says he can probabIy find her.
Why do you aIways get freaked out when ArIene asks about it?
ArIene? ArIene's got her own probIems.
My parents don't want her in the house. She phones me a miIIion times a day.
At Ieast I'm working on my stuff.
FeeI better?
Now, Steve, teII the others what you're feeIing.
Like....
-Like it's gone. -What is?
The anger.
Like the anger's gone.
It's gone.
Back then, our big thrill was going to this thing they called the Homebrew Club,
It was where guys spent all their spare time,,,
,,,trying to get access to computers owned by the local corporations,
And people would go there and show the stuff they just built,
Except most of it didn't really work all that well,
--read in the Popular Electronics issue about a year ago...
...about the new AItair 8800.
I was nervous that day we walked in with my homemade computer,,,
,,,but I got a charge out of it, All those guys,,,
,,,coming over and wanting to talk to me,
The schematics we have--
-What is this thing? -Check it out.
The first computer you're ever gonna see.
What's the screen for?
I was never good at talking to people in those days,,,
,,,but Steve, he was amazing,
AIexander Graham BeII when he heard his first ring, that's as revoIutionary as this is.
He's taIking about the AItair? I never had a probIem tiII I tried to use it.
All of a sudden we found out what we wanted to do with our lives,
-It was all we ever wanted, -To 30.
Here is the first personaI computer that you're gonna wanna buy.
Man, 50! We soId 50.
IBM is gonna be Ioading in their pants.
I don't even think IBM knows who we are.
Good. This is guerriIIa warfare.
-They're the enemy. -They are?
I used to think maybe Steve was born obsessed with wiping out IBM.
And in a way, you couId see why.
I mean, in those days, as far as we were concerned...
...IBM was practicaIIy Iike the Pentagon.
Here were a bunch of guys who dressed exactly the same,,,
,,,and sang company songs,
I mean, we were these scruffy crazies,,,
,,,messing around with computer stuff the IBM guys thought was, like, toys,
But what did they know?
-Where's your VW? -SoId it.
1 350 bucks. We're on our way.
-Steve. -What?
-What's the probIem? -I don't know if I can buiId these.
Hey, Woz, I assume we're speaking the same Ianguage, right?
Dan, EIizabeth, I'm not speaking SwahiIi, am I?
I'm here to inform you our universe is unfoIding--
But I stiII don't think I can buiId them.
I work for HewIett-Packard sometimes.
-Yeah, and? -My dad pointed it out...
...they get first chance in anything I invent.
-What? -I can't heIp it.
It's on the paper I signed.
Damn it, Woz! We get our shot, our destiny...
...and now we gotta turn it aII over to these businessmen?
Steve. It is Steve, isn't it?
Yeah. Steve, you say that this gadget of yours...
...is for ordinary peopIe.
What on earth wouId ordinary peopIe want with computers?
What?
They hated it.
Whenever Steve went to a bank to get a Ioan...
...it was Iike they were Eskimos, and we had a refrigerator to seII them.
Okay, so Steve didn't look like a business guy, But who did?
Business guys and bankers thought you'd just barfed on their shoes,,,
,,,if you tried to interest them in computers for ordinary people,
I mean, go figure,
Where's your beard?
In the bathroom. Shaved it off.
WeII, how come?
Because banks don't Iike beards.
So we caIIed ourseIves AppIe...
...and started making those IittIe computers.
Me, Steve and his friends EIizabeth and Dan.
AII of us sweating away in Steve's parents' garage.
It's Iike sometimes not knowing how crazy something is...
...is a good thing.
You're just goofing around...
...untiI someone Iike Mike shows up and says, ''Wow.''
-Steve Jobs? -Jobs.
Oh, right. I'm sorry. Mike MarkuIa.
-Hey, Mike. How you doing? -I'm weII.
The man who put inteIIigence into InteI.
-Yeah-- -No smoking in here.
Oh, I'm sorry about that. Yeah.
-VaIentine said you might caII. -Yeah.
-WeIcome to AppIe Computers. -Thank you. Here it is, huh?
I was Iooking for a venture opportunity Iike this.
What kind of venture money are we taIking about, Mike?
We start with about a quarter miIIion doIIars and see what happens.
Excuse me?
Quarter miIIion doIIars. You must be Steve Wozniak.
-Yeah. -Mike MarkuIa.
A quarter miIIion doIIars into this?
-Yep. -What's the catch?
-No catch, just business. -That's the catch...
...because this ain't just business.
This is practicaIIy spirituaI.
This is about overthrowing dead cuIture.
-Dead gods. -Okay, Iook.
You guys wanna be operating out of a garage, that's fine with me.
But this is a ground-zero operation here.
Steve Wozniak's empIoyee number one. You're number two.
Wait a minute.
I'm empIoyee number one.
-Woz? -Doesn't matter to me.
-I'm empIoyee number one. -I'm not saying anything.
-I wasn't impIying anything. -Then I'II be zero.
-Woz, you can be number one. -I'II be zero. Okay?
Even though things were changing like crazy,,,
,,,venture capitalists and bankers and all that,,,
,,,some things still stayed the same, especially with Steve,
-I don't want it, Steve. -It'II make you nice.
Woz, you and me.
This is your mother teIIing you to drop this beautifuI acid--
Your mother wouIdn't approve either.
-Get that away from me. ''Man.'' -Man, come on.
I'd be carefuI.
Baby, it's you and me. Take a IittIe trip?
-No, thanks, Steve. -Come on.
-Steve, no. -What's the matter with you guys?
It's Iike Iiving with a bunch of squares and stiffs.
More for me.
Oh, I'm standing. I'm standing in front of something.
It's a fieId of wheat.
Oh, and I hear classical music playing, Do you hear it?
I'm conducting classical music!
Everything's moving with the wind.
Everything's moving just the way I want it to.
Everything.
Steve.
Hey...
...how am I gonna get home?
-It's not bad when there's no wind. -Yeah?
What is that?
Bring down a paIIet with six more.
-Oh, man. -What?
I was just thinking about Harvard. It'II pass.
Hey, PauI.
Right on scheduIe. How you doing?
-Good to see you. -Hi, Ed.
So...
...are you--? Are you BiII?
Are you Ed?
WeII, I'II be damned.
Signing bonus?
I've never given a signing bonus in aII my Iife.
You know, Ed, in our other contracts, we aIways get a signing bonus.
-Other contracts? -Yeah, our other contracts.
WeII, I don't know.
I don't know.
Okay.
-Two thousand. -Four thousand.
-What? -Of course.
Next, Ed, this business of a $ 1 5 royaIty...
...for BASIC soId in every 4K AItair, it's just not acceptabIe.
Let me teII you something, boy. This ain't the way I do business.
And I especiaIIy don't Iike being dictated to by some IittIe--
Ed, Ed, this is not about dictating.
You see, this is about reaIity.
The reaIity is that your machine is briIIiant, but it needs our Ianguage.
And without it, you know, it's just a tin box that Iights up.
So Iet's doubIe our royaIty from $ 1 5 to $30 a copy.
So back then I get postcards from these guys,
''Wish you were here, '' and all that, Yeah, right, Albuquerque,
Bill and Paul were living in this crummy motel,,,
,,,acting like they had a clue about being in the computer business,
-Eureka. -What?
I created a program that can pIay bIackjack.
Chris, you've been here two days, and you're into bIackjack?
Yeah, so?
So you got work to do.
Oh, God, no.
Not Frank Sinatra. Not ''My Way.''
Not again. Spare us.
So, PauI, I'm putting in $909, and you're in for 606...
...and we're keeping the Microsoft name.
You know how you toId Ed that we're Ieasing whoIe office buiIdings?
What if he finds out our corporate headquarters...
...are in that roach moteI with two student empIoyees?
You think they're hookers?
Either that or moteI inspectors.
I saw that one going in and out of the moteI room...
...about a dozen times yesterday.
Oh, baby.
-I quit Harvard for this? -You wanted gIamour.
-You got gIamour. -Come on, baby.
Quit bitching or eIse go get us that pizza.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, baby, come on. Yes!
Rise and shine. Wakey wakey. Your 9:30's here.
You Ieft your MasterCard in the restaurant again yesterday.
That's the third time this month. The hoteI in DaIIas caIIed and said...
...you Ieft your suit in the room when you checked out.
Hertz caIIed back and said they wiII never rent you a car again.
Two more speeding citations in the maiI and wash your hair.
No, comb your hair, wash it Iater and change your shirt.
It's over there.
We're here for our 9:30 with your president, Mr. Gates.
Mr...
...Gates?
HeIIo?
Oh, I forgot to teII you. PauI Ieft a message. He said to teII you...
...if you get thrown in jaiI again tonight, you're on your own.
You have to find somebody eIse to baiI you out.
Okay?
-Jeez, BiII, isn't this PauI's car? -You know, I figured it out.
Exercise is bad for your heaIth.
You see, if you take a normaI puIse rate, 70 per minute...
...times the average Iife span, which is 75 years--
-Too fast, BiII. PIease. -Let's see, that's...
...70 times 60 minutes, times 24 hours, times 365 days.
-Come on, pIease. -That's 37 miIIion heartbeats...
...times 75 years.
SIow down.
Hey, Chris. Take a Iook.
BiII.
No way, man.
BiII.
The keys are in it.
I don't know if this is such a good idea, BiII.
Can you get off that thing? Come on.
I think you steer with the pedaIs and these Ievers.
No, BiII. Come on. PIease.
-Okay, don't worry about it. -Yeah, right.
On your mark.
Get set.
Go.
You're going down.
No way, man.
Microsoft? Nobody I knew ever heard of Microsoft,,,
,,,or Bill Gates, I mean, they were nobodies,
But then we were aII nobodies, which was perfect for us...
...because aII the respectabIe, straight-arrow guys...
...were busy doing what they aIways do, which is be respectabIe...
,,,which meant the rest of us could run around acting like crazies,,,
,,,which is what we did best,
I miss those days,
A buIIdozer?
Who's this AppIe Computer?
You hit my car with a buIIdozer, BiII?
I'm sorry.
We went looking for someone who had the kind of software we needed,
The only place we found was this dinky little company in Albuquerque, New Mexico,
It says AppIe wants a contract for $21 ,000 to Iicense BASIC.
Do you know what this means, PauI?
Yeah, yeah. It means that we're desperate for business.
We're nearIy bankrupt, and even worse, we're in AIbuquerque.
I just got this car, BiII. I don't beIieve you.
-A damn buIIdozer? -I'm sorry.
I think that this means there's something reaIIy going on out there in CaIifornia.
-Nine forty-five. -A.M. or P.M.?
Opens in 1 5 minutes.
I'm so tired I can't see straight.
What if they find out we've onIy made three of these computers...
...and we're acting Iike we got an assembIy Iine fuII of the things?
-What then? -Hey, Woz. No sIeeping in the booth, Woz.
You're cIuttering up the joint.
Steve, aII of a sudden we're working harder than our fathers...
...who we Iaughed at for how hard they worked.
-I don't get it. -Come on. StiII gotta change.
Change what?
Doors will open in 1 5 minutes,
Oh, my God.
-Steve. -What?
-No.
-Like I have to have a mustache? -A suit. You actuaIIy bought a suit.
Two minutes to 1 0.
-WeII, you think anyone wiII show up? -How the heII shouId I know that?
Of course they're gonna show up. I don't know. Maybe.
Is my tie okay?
There it is.
Unbelievable, It was practically like being a rock star or something,
People swarming all over you,
Hordes of them coming to see this amazing machine,,,
,,,with 62 chips and ICs that make all these colors,
Hard pIastic, moIded casing. You've never seen this.
-65.02 and up. -No, we got them beat.
And when the guys from Microsoft showed up,,,
,,,how were we to know who they were? Them standing there,,,
,,,looking at an empty Altair booth on one side and us on the other,
-I mean, who would you choose? -Hi, how are you?
-Hi. -Steve.
-How you doing? -I'm BiII Gates.
-Yeah, hi. -Chairman of Microsoft.
-Nice to see you. We had a box-- -Microsoft, we design--
Yeah, good to see you.
-Hey, Steve. Over here. -Hi, John.
Excuse me, excuse me.
No, wait, come here. Come here.
Maybe he just didn't hear you or something.
Yeah, maybe.
For the first time in my Iife, peopIe are coming to me, instead of me going to them.
Man, this is insaneIy great.
I'm telling you, it was a weird time,
People were going nuts over the Apple II, I couldn't keep up with anything,
The company was expanding so fast I didn't know who half the new people were,
And Steve had a lot of people, you know, older people,,,
,,,start pay attention to him, which was amazing,
And me too, sort of, People even knew who I was,
-Hi. -Should have been fun,,,
,,,but with all the good stuff, bad stuff came too,
-Steve. -What?
Oh, jeez. Not again.
What? What? What?
What are you--? What are you taIking about, it's not your chiId?
How do I even know if this baby's mine?
-You know. Damn you, you know. -How do I know that?
Steve, I'm two months prENnant. Who eIse have I been with?
Look, go do whatever it is you wanna do. You wanna pIay mommy? Fine.
-But the kid's not mine. -It is. It is.
You bastard!
God.
What did they say?
Hey, Steve. Take a Iook at this.
CarI's got that parity on that BASIC--
You guys are not being paid to be a bunch of cIowns!
Or maybe you are. Maybe that's the probIem around here.
You guys are supposed to be writing programs.
Steve, we were just doing--
I need peopIe with taIent. I need artists!
What the heII are you morons but a bunch of cIock-punching Iosers? Huh, teII me?
And here is another Ietter of recommendation.
WeII, Mr. Brewster, we've Iooked at your appIication...
...and I see a Iot of mainframe experience here.
Six years. ActuaIIy--
Six and a haIf.
Steve? I don't know if you've met Steve Jobs.
Yes. No. It's good to meet you.
Right.
You were in marketing, correct?
That was before the programming. Yeah.
I took night-schooI courses at San Jose State.
You Iook Iike an IBM type.
WeII...
...no. But I did have a chance in coIIENe to be interviewed by them...
...and they Iiked me. They fIew me out to their headquarters Back East.
Oh, I'm sure they did.
No, I did, see?
I was one of about a dozen peopIe that they reaIIy recruited.
Are you a virgin?
Steve, come on.
-What? Am I what? -Are you a virgin?
I--
No.
How oId were you when you first got Iaid?
I don't-- I don't--
-Steve, wiII you Ieave him aIone? -I asked you a question.
My wife and I have been married since we were in grad schooI.
I didn't ask you about your wife.
You're stiII a virgin. You just think you're not.
You don't fit in here.
Why are you even wasting our time?
I....
Yeah, I'II run a test on it.
Steve...
-...you demoIished that guy. -Woz, what we're doing right now...
...is Iike...
...opening doors.
Every day.
If you open the wrong one, aII sorts of bad things wiII come at you.
You gotta be carefuI which door you open.
-You want me to go apoIogize to that guy? -WeII, he probabIy Ieft.
You know, Steve, there's things you probabIy have to get past with me.
But I'm teIIing you, there's things that I have to get past with you.
I mean, peopIe say stuff about you sometimes...
...and I don't Iisten to them, because I know you.
I mean, I excuse stuff because we're friends.
It's worth it. It is.
It's worth it. It's worth it. It's worth it.
It was about five years after I got out of Harvard,,,
,,,I get this call from Bill, who says, ''You wanna join me and Paul?''
It was a two-bit little company they called Microsoft,
And at first I think, ''Yeah, Like I'd like to lose more hair, ''
But, you know, then I started thinking,
You know how you survive?
You make peopIe need you.
You survive because you make them need what you have.
And then they have nowhere eIse to go.
Right now we're dead.
-Nobody needs us. -So we make them need us?
We're too smaII even to matter.
We couId be snuffed out tomorrow, and no one wouId notice.
You know what they say in the Mafia?
You keep your friends cIose but your enemies cIoser.
Which enemies are you taIking about?
I got some fuII barf bags here. FuII barf bags. Heads up.
-He's sick. -BaId guy with barf bags.
Coming through. FuII ones too. How you doing?
Come on.
-My tie. I forgot my tie. -Great, BiII. We're aIready Iate.
Hey, how you doing? Ten bucks for your tie. Okay, 20.
Thirty. Come on, come on. Thirty. Thirty bucks for that tie.
Where did you get that, Sears? Come on. HeIp us out here. WouId you? PIease?
You see, by that time, Bill had already figured out,,,
,,,that we gotta go right into the belly of the beast, The scariest beast of them all, IBM,
IBM, And back then, man, they were like Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan,,,
,,,and Vlad the Impaler all rolled into one,
But what we were gonna do was, we were gonna make them love us,
GentIemen, how are you? Nice tie.
-Thanks. -We're over here.
Our shirts are as white as theirs.
We think we have what you need.
That's a start.
Now, we know that IBM has set up this pIace to compete head-on with AppIe...
...and you're gearing up to come out with a personaI computer that wiII wipe them out.
So we can get you an operating system.
What kind of operating system?
It's caIIed...
...DOS.
This is amazing. Not just amazing, it's historic.
It shouId be taught in aII the history books.
I mean, hung and framed in the NationaI GaIIery or something.
Because this is the instant of creation...
...of one of the greatest fortunes in the history of the worId.
I mean, BiII Gates is the richest guy in the worId because of what started in this room.
You wanna know what eIse?
It wasn't exactIy smoke and mirrors, but we didn't have anything.
I mean, not a damn thing.
Here we were, this two-bit IittIe outfit...
...teIIing IBM we had the answer to their probIems.
DOS? The Disk Operating System?
To make aII those ziIIion IBM computers compute?
We didn't even remoteIy own anything Iike what BiII was seIIing them.
Nada, zip.
Of course, we don't just wanna seII it to you outright.
We wanna be abIe to Iicense it to you.
-You want to retain ownership? -Right.
WeII, the profits are in the computers themseIves, not this software stuff.
No big deaI.
Oh, and one other thing.
We have to be abIe...
...to seII it to other outfits.
But...
...there was just one IittIe probIem.
BiII, why did you teII them we have an operating system?
We don't have a thing to seII them now. We're dead.
-We're not. You'II give us the miracIe, right? -Oh, yeah, right.
WeII, come on. You said you knew a guy we couId buy an operating system from.
I said I sort of know him.
Sort of? You heard me. Don't teII me ''sort of.'' I just toId IBM.
Sort of.
-Here you go. -Thanks.
So basicaIIy, you're saying you wanna buy my operating system.
Yeah.
Why?
You know, I don't know. We just think we might be abIe to mess with it and reseII it.
Who to?
We have a few customers, you know, we're sort of taIking to.
Some of them don't want it known what we're doing.
So they made us sign a secrecy agreement.
-And you're offering us...? -Fifty thousand.
-DoIIars? -DoIIars.
You worried?
Oh, no. OnIy my whoIe Iife hangs in the baIance. Me, worried? No.
We got IBM.
IBM. I mean, come to think of it...
...why wouId IBM wanna make a deaI with a bunch of bozos Iike us?
Because they're successfuI, BaIImer.
Success is a menace. It fooIs smart peopIe into thinking they can't Iose.
So?
So, you mute moron?
Can you hear it? The sound of money?
The roar of money, It was like everywhere you turned, money poured down,
Millions and more millions,
All because we bought that guy's operating system for a measly 50,000 bucks,
That fueled a worldwide explosion of wealth unlike anything in the history of man,
But you know something?
Having money and being cool are not necessarily the same thing,
-Hi, I'm BiII Gates-- -Hey.
What in the--?
Hi.
You know, you shouId reaIIy watch where you're going.
You must have reaIIy great bandwidth.
-Excuse me? -What are you doing Iater?
Who is that jerk?
Way to go, hotshot.
When PauI and I were at Lakeside, we were in 1 0th grade together...
...we rigged a computer so we couId get cIasses with aII the best girIs.
ObviousIy, it's been downhiII since then.
You shouId waIk around with your bankbook hanging from a chain on your beIt.
Or maybe you ought to stop yeIIing in front of your empIoyees.
GirIs don't Iike yeIIing. They Iike cooI.
Oh, reaIIy, BaIImer? How do you get to be cooI?
I don't know. You saw Saturday Night Fever. TravoIta's cooI.
I'd Iike to weIcome aII of you to the new headquarters and home of AppIe Computers.
All of a sudden, Steve was a huge star,
The kind where people practically hang on your every word,,,
,,,like they're excited just to be around you,
Thank you very much for joining us today on this IoveIy day...
...and heIping us stop the gossip rumors in their tracks.
Without further ado, the rumors are true.
Ladies and gentIemen, our new president, John ScuIIey.
To teII you the truth, I was perfectIy happy to be president of Pepsi-CoIa...
...untiI Steve Jobs came to recruit me and said:
''Do you wanna seII sugared water for the rest of your Iife...
...or do you wanna make history?''
-Yeah. -Yeah.
-I know. -Yeah, operator.
-I need information for OrENon. -Okay, give me a minute.
Steve, I gotta taIk. I don't know how to act in situations Iike this.
-In a minute. -I mean, Steve, that stock-offering thing?
A hundred miIIion doIIars?
-What do you do with $ 1 1 6 miIIion? -In a minute.
I don't think rich, okay? I know a Iot of peopIe think rich, but I don't think rich.
I mean, maybe you Iearn it, but, jeez, $ 1 00 miIIion. That's a Iot of Iearning to do.
I hardIy ever had enough for Iunch before aII this.
We shouId have given stock to the other guys, Steve.
Like Dan? Dan's been with us since we started...
...and you didn't set aside any stock for him.
Steve.
-I'm gonna give Dan some of my stock. -Yeah, is ArIene there?
We gotta do the right thing.
Arlene? Okay, fine, Let's talk about this baby,
Steve, why do you care what I caII the baby?
Because I don't want the baby named Rainbow.
Or Orisha or Ravi Shankar or any other name Iike that.
Steve, not right now, okay?
Well, when the hell is a good time to call? Because every time I try--
Steve.
-Do you want me to take that? -Thank you.
You're weIcome.
Hi.
So I just came by to make sure everything's okay.
-Everything okay? -Thank you.
And to...
...make sure that you're not gonna name it some weird name.
What's wrong with naming her Orisha?
Or Sunshine or Purity?
A kid's got enough probIems in this worId...
...not knowing where it beIongs.
A name can IabeI a kid.
Make it--
It can make it an outsider.
Not ''it.''
Her.
Lisa.
Okay.
She's your daughter too.
ArIene, Iet's not go through that again.
You don't just Iive in Iife.
You change it, you shape it, you make your mark upon it.
And that's what, get used to the name...
...Lisa is gonna do.
Yeah!
You know, that computer was the first big new project we had at Apple,
And some people are still wondering why Steve insisted on that name,
You wanna caII a computer Lisa?
Isn't that your baby's--?
I mean--
What's her name? ArIene. Isn't that ArIene's baby's name?
Other guys here have daughters named Lisa.
Steve, you got a baby up there you don't even wanna taIk about.
-I mean, it Iooks sort of.... -Sort of what?
We have to think of ourseIves as artists.
It's Iike Picasso said:
Good artists copy. Great artists steaI.
This is who we wanted to steal from, Xerox,
They were secretly developing all this amazing stuff,,,
,,,like the mouse and the graphics on the screen instead of just a bunch of numbers,
But when those California engineers had to go to New York,,,
,,,and present all this neat stuff to the Xerox brass,,,
,,,those executives didn't bENin to understand what they were looking at,
Never mind a mouse, It was like someone dumped a dead rat on the boardroom table,
A mouse.
You want Xerox to consider something caIIed a mouse?
See, this is where Steve was a genius,,,
,,,because he persuaded Xerox into showing us all this incredible stuff,,,
,,,their California guys had developed,
I tell you, it was making their people absolutely nuts,
Oh, God.
Let's go.
You know, I felt like one of the Mongol hordes,,,
,,,coming to loot and plunder a bunch of defenseless villagers,
No, no. This is insane.
We'd just be handing him everything.
We created the mouse and aII the rest of it, and now these idiots in New York...
...want to show it aII to Steve Jobs.
I won't do it.
Hi. I'm Steve Jobs.
I need you to answer some other questions about the stuff you've invented.
The graphic interface?
It's not going to hurt.
That's what you think.
-What do you want to know? -How does it--?
What is your base Iength? Is it intENer, or is it compound?
Does your operating system convert to executabIe codes?
-I got it. I got it, Steve-O. I got it, Steve-O. -What is the middIe--?
It's pretty neat, right?
CIick, you're there.
CIick, you're somewhere eIse.
This graphic interface stuff was Iike a miracIe back then, and we got it.
Steve got it, from Xerox, who just turned it aII over for us to fooI with.
Like rich peopIe giving junky oId stuff to the SaIvation Army...
...onIy the junk turns out to be a Rembrandt.
About $ 1 00 biIIion head start on everyone eIse.
AppIe was making tons of money. It was great.
And of course, I sort of Iost my mind. I mean, it was aII fun and games.
I started buying reaIIy expensive toys.
It was me with my own plane,
Only problem was, maybe I wasn't as good a pilot as I thought I was,
I mean, it's one thing when computers crash, but planes?
You don't want to know,
Hey, Steve. Are you just getting here?
No, I was just outside taIking to the doctor.
You don't remember us taIking 1 0 minutes ago?
-We taIked? -Yeah.
Hey, my hard disk crashed.
A computer guy with memory probIems.
Oh, man.
It's the weirdest thing. You know there's a part of your Iife there...
...onIy you don't know about it.
It makes you crazy.
Hey.
Hey!
PauI.
Simonyi, get Matthews.
BaIImer, get in here.
-What is it? -This is seriousIy crummy.
AppIe's new computer, Lisa? We're dead.
Oh, yeah, I've aIready seen one.
The graphics and the operating system they have...
...they make what we're seIIing IBM Iook a decade out-of-date.
-I want it. -What do you mean, you want it?
-It's AppIe's. We can't just go and steaI it. -You're not Iistening to me. I want it.
Final call for TWA flight 2684 to San Jose, Final call,
-Fifty bucks he misses the fIight. -You're on.
It wouIdn't hurt to buy a car radio, BiII.
-I can't pick up the radio-- -One traffic report.
-HoId on. -Sir, we're on this pIane.
I'm sorry. Your pIane is on the runway.
Ma'am, what kind of service is this today?
I'm sorry, sir. There's nothing that can bring that pIane back to the gate.
Yes, there is. WiIIpower. I'm going to wiII that that pIane be turned around.
-Oh, reaIIy? -ReaIIy, sir.
Are you aware that today in my briefcase are computer Ianguage codes?
-Do you know what they do, sir? -I'm afraid I don't.
They protect against viruses. You're aware of viruses, I presume?
-Sir, I do go to doctors. -No, sir, computer viruses.
Oh, yeah, I just read an articIe about those things.
-They can wipe out a whoIe computer. -A whoIe system of computers.
Like the one behind your terminaI there, Iike the one in the pIane...
...Iike the one on aII pIanes in the airIines, Iike the one in the controI tower, sir.
I ask you, are you prepared to take responsibiIity for your actions...
...if I don't get this information on that pIane?
Jeez, his reputation for inconveniencing the rest of the worId is intact.
He actuaIIy missed a fIight.
This is your captain speaking, We have to return to the gate for a few minutes,
Nothing critical,
-Attention, please, flight,,,, -Your tickets, pIease.
-You have the tickets, right? -No, I gave them to you.
BiII, in the car.
Wow. These guys must be 50 times bigger than we are.
Good artists copy. Great artists steaI.
-Oh, yeah? Who said that? -Some artist. I think it was Van Gogh.
Hey, check it out.
Aye, matey. It wouIdn't be time to rape and piIIage, wouId it?
You sure it's okay to Iet these Microsoft guys in here?
We have cuIture. They don't.
No taste. No originaI thinking.
But they can be usefuI to us.
Time for the dog and pony show.
WeIcome to AppIe.
BiII.
Nice to see you. Thanks for coming. Steve.
-How you doing, Steve? -GIad you're here. PauI. Hi, Steve Jobs.
-Hi. CharIes Simonyi. -Come on in. Let me introduce you.
This is GiImore. He's one of our top programmers.
And he's a IoyaI man. WeII, to do this, you need IoyaIty.
-TotaI IoyaIty. Isn't that right? -That's the pIan, Steve.
This way. The Macintosh team. It's more Iike a famiIy.
Everybody eIse is an outsider.
-What's with the pirate stuff? -What do I aIways teII you?
Better to be a pirate than join the Navy.
-You a pirate? -Oh, yeah. Yeah, absoIuteIy, Steve.
I've been up for 52 hours straight.
LoyaIty.
I'm gonna show you the future.
It's top-secret. It's stiII about...
...a year away from introduction.
The uItimate, insaneIy great...
...fusion of art and science.
-It's caIIed the Macintosh. -This is definiteIy not the Lisa.
That's a graphic user interface.
I don't understand. How does a computer handIe the mouse-cursor dispIay?
Hardware's got nothing to do with the mouse.
-It's aII in the software. -Enough.
Sorry, Steve.
There's no point in torturing our guests...
...with what they can't have.
You're vuInerabIe in spreadsheets, you know, Steve.
We can heIp you.
Ninety hours a week. Like the T-shirt? I'm gonna give it to my peopIe.
Some of them work even more than 90 hours a week.
We have MuItipIan running on dozens of different pIatforms.
No one can match us.
You can't just have empIoyees anymore.
It's great.
No, they gotta be into a crusade.
It's Iike art, science, reIigion, aII roIIed into one.
We have muIti-tooI interface. It can be redesigned for the Mac.
Redesigned. Redesigned.
We're artists here.
A pIace where raw sand comes in one end...
...and goes out the other. SiIicon art.
You know, IBM, they're gonna want aII our stuff.
IBM?
IBM, they're history.
I mean, they're 1 950s, they're ice America, a bIoated enemy in a crumbIing castIe.
-And we're storming it. -I know IBM is the enemy, Steve.
But we can heIp you.
You don't have to worry about IBM.
Yeah?
So why you even working with them?
I'd much rather work with you.
We're in.
-We're doing work for AppIe. -You're kidding me.
They're sending us three prototypes of the computer we just saw.
-The Macintosh. -For God sakes.
There's a pirate fIag fIying above our heads, and he's giving us the crown jeweI?
Who the heII's the pirate here?
He sees what he beIieves, not the other way around.
We're not his worst probIem.
If he's not carefuI, he's gonna wreck the pIace.
-Macintosh! Macintosh! -Macintosh ruIes!
-AppIe II's the best! -Mac's the best!
Even when I got my memory back, it was never the same for me,
I couldn't believe how it had all changed,
Apple was tearing itself to pieces,
Steve had turned it into two camps;
His new Macintosh group against everyone else in the company,
Steve, what the heII is this?
It's Iike a famiIy. Things get messy.
I don't understand this.
You got the Mac peopIe against the AppIe II peopIe?
-They're beating each other up. -Amazing, huh?
PeopIe wanna be shaped, moIded.
But if you asked any of them, any of them, they'd deny it.
I don't wanna shape anybody, Steve. This isn't fun anymore.
Maybe fun is just fragments of existence with better packaging.
I don't make jokes anymore.
I toId you a Iong time ago, I Iike jokes.
Steve! Goodbye. I'm quitting AppIe.
-WeII, that's a joke, right? -No. I'm going back to coIIENe.
Woz. Hey, what are you doing? I don't think it's such a good idea.
AII I'm doing now is being a brake pedaI for you as you're heading for the waII.
Woz!
-I ask you for briIIiance? -Steve.
I've asked you for genius, and you're giving me this?
Steve, pIease.
Oh, no, Steve, not again.
It's 3 a.m., okay? I don't have the energy to defend an unfinished design.
That's because there's nothing to defend.
I want beauty, not incompetence.
Are you Iistening to me?
-Are you Iistening--? -Yes, I'm Iistening!
I am so sick of your abusiveness.
That's aII you know. Tearing peopIe down, throwing tantrums.
-You miserabIe son of a bitch. -What are you doing? Come on, back off.
I know we've been in a battle,,,
...and Iike aII battIes, we've had our casuaIties aIong the way.
But today's about ceIebrating.
The Macintosh.
It's time for a christening...
...of our IittIe Macintosh.
Our baby.
-CongratuIations. -CongratuIations.
ReaI artists ship.
In this company, in AppIe, in the entire business...
...we, you, the Macintosh team, are the onIy true artists.
You can forget AppIe, forget Lisa.
It's onIy us. The Macintosh team.
We have been chosen to seize history.
But first, carpe diem, seize the day. It's your time to party, peopIe.
Hey, John.
You hear what I heard in there?
-Hey, man, what'd you say about Steve? -I'm sick of his crap.
-What'd you say, man? -You heard me.
You wanna taIk Iike that about Steve?
You wanna taIk Iike that about the guy who feeds you, man?
-The guy who feeds you? -Come on. Break it up.
Come on.
-Hey, hey, guys. -Somebody puII him off.
-Never Iike this at Pepsi-CoIa. -Knock it off.
You wanna seII sugar water the rest of your Iife?
Steve, I'm worried.
Yeah?
Yeah, about what's happening.
AII the, you know, ''them versus us'' stuff. Macintosh versus AppIe II.
You don't understand, John. PeopIe need a cause.
We missed Vietnam. This is our Vietnam.
-It's tearing the company apart. -Creation is messy.
You want genius, you get madness. Two sides of the same coin.
You knew that when I brought you in.
Steve, if you can't trust me, then God heIp you.
I didn't mention anything about trust, John.
There's another probIem.
-It's ArIene and the baby. -That's my business.
No, not anymore. TIME magazine is doing another story.
You don't need the bad press. Neither do we.
-ChiId's not mine. -Steve, come on. You took a paternity test.
She is yours. It's right there in the resuIts.
-Paternity tests are a joke. -She's asking for $20,000.
-TotaI, nothing more. -BIackmaiI.
Steve, you can afford the money. Give her what she's asking for.
-You shouId give her more. -It's not about the damn money.
WeII, what is it, then?
I don't know.
Mommy, there's a man here.
It's been what, a year?
-Yeah, I've been busy. -I'm sure.
-Why'd you come? -I don't know.
She's Iooking reaIIy good.
You shouId have come to see her.
-You couId have brought her by. -Oh, Steve.
Here.
Thank you.
Thank you, Lisa.
-Steve Jobs is kiIIing us. BaIImer! -Yeah?
This stuff is crummy. It's totaIIy crummy.
-Windows was supposed to ship Iast year. -We're ready for you.
Why do I have to do this? I have work. This is stupid.
It's good PR. It's for The Wall Street Journal.
-I don't need PR. -Can you stand a IittIe to the Ieft?
The hoIe in that sweater of your shirt. Turn aII the way to the right.
What am I, a trained seaI?
-If AppIe can do this, why can't we? -What do you want us to do?
-Whatever you have to. -Meaning what, BiII?
Meaning ship Windows before the snow faIIs.
-This is SeattIe. It doesn't snow here. -Whatever, Steve.
Mr. Gates, I think you shouId take off your sweater...
...because it cIashes with the background.
The green and bIue, it's just not in these days.
It's not in at aII.
Sweat stains. This is awfuI.
-I'd Iike to get back to work-- -I know, we're aImost ready.
Okay, and three, two, one. SmiIe, pIease.
Urgent, Mr. Gates.
Thank you. What's next?
Steve Jobs.
''Mr. Jobs demands you be in his office tonight.''
He's getting paranoid over what we're doing.
Maybe he shouId be.
Not at the pace you're going.
I think I had a date tonight with Ann.
-I thought she was away on business. -She is.
Then how can you have a date?
WeII, I go to a movie here, and then she goes to the same movie in Denver...
...and then we taIk on the phone about it afterwards.
Jeez, BiII, I hate to see what happens when you two have sex.
You're steaIing from us!
Steve, we're not steaIing from you. So don't teII me that.
What the heII are you doing, then?
What is this that I keep hearing about you deveIoping this--?
What do you caII it? Windows?
To compete with us?
-I'm not doing anything against you, Steve. -Don't give me that crap!
You're pirating the software off our Mac prototypes!
I trusted you.
If you wanna know everything we're working on, I'II show you.
The weird thing was,,,
,,,Steve Jobs was the one guy Bill would never yell at, It was the opposite,
Steve would order Bill to fly down there and then blow up at him,,,
,,,but Bill, he would just wait it out, convince Steve that we were no threat,,,
,,,that this Windows stuff was just that much more smoke and mirrors,,,
,,,and a few hours later, everything was fine,
I'm telling you, Bill's a genius at it,
And that's aII you're working on?
Of course.
-Yeah? -You know what eIse?
Did you read what I said in that newspaper story on us two days ago?
-No. What'd you say? -I said when your Macintosh comes out...
...that'd be the onIy computer I'd want to buy my mom.
-Yeah? -Yeah.
Your mom, huh?
-It's Iike we're one big famiIy, you know? -FamiIy?
You know that.
FamiIy.
Steve, Steve, Steve, Steve!
TeII me something.
When did this stop being a business and start being a reIigion?
Thank you for your work.
And remember, what we wiII do in the next year...
...wiII change the way peopIe think...
...and communicate.
Hey.
-Hey. -So enjoy the revoIution...
...which we have aII created and watch....
You know, Steve thinks IBM's the enemy.
--unfoIds in front of us.
He doesn't get it.
You guys are.
What are you taIking about?
Copies of your Windows just started surfacing here.
You took our stuff, BiII.
You took our stuff, you fooIed with it, and you caIIed it your own.
You aIways insuIt your guests Iike this?
Make no mistake.
We are aII one big famiIy.
And part of it are our friends at Microsoft.
BiII?
Ladies and gentIemen, BiII Gates.
FinaIIy, I wanna show you a preview...
...of the most amazing 60 seconds of fiIm you'II ever see.
And we're showing it onIy once...
...during the Super BowI.
So watch and see how we handIe IBM.
I mean Big Brother.
See, that commercial was interesting in a lot of ways,,,
,,,because when we're at this big hoopla at Apple,,,
,,,and their engineers are unpacking all these Japanese computers,,,
,,,with the first copies of our stuff, Windows,,,
,,,that looks a lot like their stuff,,,,
I mean, if I had to pick a moment,,,,
Hey...
...I'm getting some pretty weird vibes here.
Sure we shouId stay around?
Sometimes you deaI them. Sometimes you foId them.
Now's not the time to foId.
We shall prevail,
I obviousIy made a mistake.
I made a mistake.
I trusted.
I beIieved.
FamiIy.
Maybe a Mafia famiIy. You turn your back, and you get whacked.
Our guys come back from Japan with this NEC...
...and it's Ioaded with Microsoft programs. Your Microsoft programs.
They're aImost identicaI to ours.
There may be some simiIarities, Steve.
SimiIarities?
-Try theft. -Steve, aII cars have steering wheeIs...
...but no one tries to cIaim that the steering wheeI was their invention.
-We have a contract, you and I. -WeII, you shouId read it more carefuIIy.
What is this?
This is Iike doing business with...
...Iike, a praying mantis.
You get seduced and then eaten aIive afterwards.
Get reaI, wiII you?
You and I are both Iike guys that have this rich neighbor...
...Xerox...
...that Ieft the door open aII the time.
And you go sneaking in to steaI the TV set.
OnIy when you get there, you reaIize that I got there first.
I got the Ioot, Steve!
And you're yeIIing?
''That's not fair.
I wanted to try to steaI it first.''
You're too Iate.
We're better than you are.
-We have better stuff. -You don't get it, Steve.
That doesn't matter.
You know, like a lot of things, there always seems to be one last time,
For us, it was when we all came together again,,,
,,,for this big party Steve threw for his 30th birthday,
It was just one of those things,
You know, where you try really hard to make something work,,,
,,,but somehow it just doesn't,
And maybe you should have known it all along,
-Is that reaIIy EIIa FitzgeraId? -I have absoIuteIy no idea.
You hear the kind of food they're serving?
-SaImon mousse, goat's cheese. -I can't eat that stuff.
-Why don't we go to Denny's? -Is that Joan Baez with him?
Wait, wait. Who's Joan Baez?
-Hi. -John.
I need to taIk to you. It's important.
Okay, John. Excuse me.
We've got a probIem. We've been asked to make a toast to Steve.
Me? Toast Steve? No way, man. Not after what's happened. No way.
Oh, John, don't Iook at me. I-- Mike, you do it.
After the past few months? I don't think so.
John, you're the one.
-No. Not now. AbsoIuteIy no way. -Why not?
-Look, Steve thinks I'm his.... -He thinks you're what?
Ladies and gentIemen, a toast.
To a remarkabIe man.
A man who brought me to this company...
...without whom none of this tonight wouId ever have happened.
Steve Jobs, truIy a guiding Iight. A man who sees the future.
-Hear, hear! -Steve.
Happy birthday!
It's weird, but sometimes you find things that are more important to you...
...than the things you think are important. You know what I mean?
Maybe it's just getting oIder.
Okay, guys. Let's see how we did.
That's a good one.
It's true.
We're Iearning about the size of the sun versus the size of the Earth.
Hi, Steve,
I think it's gonna be really interesting, I mean, you and me together,
Yeah.
It is.
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