Steve Jobs (2015) Soundboard Edit

A friendly, easy computer that isn't an eyesore

A lawyer couple adopted me first,

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

A pet project of CEO John Sculley.

Absolve me.

All right? On the Apple II team, there are no top guys.

All right. Okay.

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

And I don't bleed.

And I liked a solid workbench.

And if you keep alienating people for no reason,

And in the entire world, you are the only person

And invest in FileServer.

And just changed time zones.

And our brand was my brand.

And three centimeters to the right of the second button

And we didn't show the product.

And you didn't do anything about it,

Andy Hertzfeld. Thank you.

Andy, come on back a minute.

Andy?

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

Anybody else... you, Markkula, Arthur Rock

Anyone but Rain Man.

Apple Computers closed two of its factories today

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

Apple has a new competitor.

Are beyond your command.

At Flint, right before the Mac launch.

At the launch of the Macintosh?

Ballet. It was a ballet.

Because the open system is what people love about the machine,

Because you knew your cards and I showed you mine.

Bring me the face of Steve Wozniak.

Bring me the head of Andy Hertzfeld.

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

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

But he says there may be some glitches this morning.

But I can't because of how terrible it is

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

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

But that thing looks like Judy Jetson's Easy Bake oven.

But the error code is wrong. It's a system error.

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

But they'll know they want it.

But where do you come down on starting late?

But you're not supposed to be here right now.

By not letting myself be imprisoned and degraded by them.

Can I borrow your hand for a second?

Certainly couldn't hurt.

Clearing the table is a chore.

Could build ham radios or something.

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

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

Do it. It's right. It's...

Do not share proprietary knowledge with that man.

Do you have any experience or training in this field?

Do you want to stop horsing around?

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

Don't even open it

Don't give them reason to say to the press

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

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

Don't take it personally. Just not a fan of the circus aesthetic

Don't try to win an argument with Lisa.

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

Family, colleagues, stockholders and the press,

For a time.

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

Go ahead, Lisa.

God, the things we could've done

Going to Andy and asking for the money?

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

Have I ever let you down?

Have them stand up.

He said you'd change it to that verse.

He was John because he was John.

He was warning me that being your father figure could be dangerous

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

He'd probably find a reason to sue me.

He's sitting out in the house

Hello, I'm Macintosh.

Hello, old friend.

Here's why.

Hertzfeld? I was ranting.

Hey, Steve.

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

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

I already have, Steve.

I built the circuit board.

I came here because you're gonna get killed.

I came here to clear the air.

I can stay and watch

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

I did, but unless we can also change the properties of fire, he doesn't care.

I didn't know literally. Jesus.

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

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

I don't give a shit, Yentl.

I don't have a chip on my shoulder.

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

I don't know what that means.

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

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

I don't want to embarrass her in front of her friends.

I don't want to see you get dragged off an airplane in plastic handcuffs.

I don't.

I gave you your day in court.

I got to get back onstage. We got two minutes of rehearsal time left.

I had reason to be angry.

I have no earthly idea why you're here.

I know what time it is. I need a quorum here in one hour and I want Steve here too.

I like it better than the old shark

I love that you don't care how much money a person makes. You care what they make.

I love you too, Woz.

I love you, Steve.

I meant it.

I might quote a different verse.

I missed something so obvious about...

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

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

I once met Seiji Ozawa at Tanglewood.

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

I say Steve's an asshole.

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

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

I want A players at Apple and not Dell.

I want you to push them out all at once...

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

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

I'd at least consider the possibility

I'd be really surprised if you came here to talk about interior decorating.

I'd have told you if I did.

I'm gonna hang on to it.

I'm letting you keep your job.

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

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

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

I'm not okay losing

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

I'm paying your tuition.

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

I'm the only one that knows

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

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

If I had another ruler, I would measure this ruler, but I really doubt it's off.

If it crashes, it crashes.

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

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

Imprisoned? I can't get rid of you.

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

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

Is it? Hmm?

Is there a plan?

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

It doesn't embarrass the shareholders.

It is the big new thing.

It just did.

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

It's a coincidence.

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

It's almost finished.

It's an abstract.

It's been seven years. You're still doing it. You're talking about the slots

It's closed, end to end.

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

It's having no control.

It's overpriced. We need to drop it to 1,995

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

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

It's warm and it's playful and it needs to say hello.

Joanna's gonna call my name in a second.

Jobs is hitting back with a new company and a new computer.

John Sculley.

John Sculley.

John, if you're here about your legacy,

Keep your 100 bucks. I'm sticking with the first verse

L I S A.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome...

Ladies and gentlemen, the house is now open.

Last time blood feuds weren't settled, I lost the cover of Time.

Let me see it with the cue, from the profile.

Let's go.

Like what?

Markkula took me off the Lisa because of his strong religious objection to making it good.

Money which you make her beg for.

My dad named a computer after me

My friend, a long time ago,

My thing was, how can it hurt?

Nah, we're not interested in this one.

No need to thank me.

No. There's less of a chance of a scene if you stay here. She'll be cool.

Nobody even knows they were skinheads.

Nobody lost you anything.

Not a problem.

Nothing was named after anybody. It's a coincidence

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

Now I bled that night.

Now, I'd like to show you what they're gonna look like tomorrow.

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

Okay. Just...

Okay. Pull the voice demo

On the other hand, someone did choose you.

One of the engineers.

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

Or hit George Harrison over the head?

Our unification of thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth.

Over who will take over the helm.

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

Please tell her it's important.

Put more bodies on an internal hard drive

Really?

Recommend that we drop the price and double the marketing budget.

Right now

Rumors are flying around Apple Computer once again

Secure from the pests purveying contradictory thoughts.

She looks fantastic. Always does. Get out.

She will see, if she doesn't already, that her mother is a woman who stands up to men.

She's had the same sinus infection since 1988

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

So after eight years, it came crashing down

So don't tell me how you built Apple.

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

So I'm gonna put a thousand songs in your pocket.

So I've been dispatched as the Steve Whisperer.

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

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

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

So tell me where the boundary is.

So that hackers and hobbyists

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

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

Somebody had to.

Speak of the devil's chief engineer.

Steve?

Steve.

Steve. Kinda liked the last shark.

Steve...

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

Still.

Stop. You.

Students and educators

Sure.

Take a walk with me.

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

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That came out of nowhere.

That that's good for our business,

That was her intent. I don't know...

That's been built to run on Intel.

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

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

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

That's right. No, he said, The musicians play their instruments

That's the idea, brother

That's the part that's bullshit, my friend.

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

The Apple II should embarrass you. It embarrasses me.

The Apple II team has my affection,

The floor. The pin spot.

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

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

The Mac is Jef Raskin's.

The Mac needs to sell for 1,995.

The Macintosh, Apple's near mythological home computer,

The only way to do that is to take money out of the Apple II.

The other two must be equal as well

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

The resorts come with couches.

The right computer will be a bicycle for the mind.

The same way you get over your high school sweetheart.

The starry night and skywriting was Bruce Horn.

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

The universe was created in a third of that time.

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

Then my parents adopted me.

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

There are a hundred engineers walking around here

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

There wasn't a single fight you lost.

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

There's gonna be no one left for it to say hello to

There's no reason in the world why she should be nice.

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

There's something wrong with you. This argument started in the garage.

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

They didn't know yet how they were gonna get it back.

They were published. Were you pressured to do it?

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

They've been sitting in the back of the auditorium since 7:00 this morning.

They've come to the conclusion that they really don't know clouds, love or life at all

This is my field. I'm begging you to manage expectations out there.

This is the first time we haven't played for the same team

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

Those are the exact words.

Time wrote a mangled piece of journal.

To this day know that you forced it,

Today, Apple has only 3.2 percent.

Two days ago, we ran a Super Bowl ad that could've won the Oscar for Best Short Film.

Until I have better answers, no press avail.

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

Was I pressured to do it?

Was, I promise you, a customer.

We could pull it out of the demo and no one would be disappointed.

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

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

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

We showed a lot of happy people drinking Pepsi.

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

We used them as fucking extras.

We're gonna bring out a wireless camera we stole from Panasonic.

We're gonna sell a million units in the first 90 days.

We're gonna sell a million units in the first 90 days.

We're losing market share, and the Mac is losing money.

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

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

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

What are the choices?

What are the real projections?

What are they handing out at Hewlett Packard?

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

What did you think was gonna happen?

What do you think so far?

What does that have to do with...

What I said to the press was an honest, if tempered, reflection of what I believed.

What the hell is going on here?

What?

What's it about?

What's your problem?

When you spent all your money on it

When you're certain you're right?

Which is what supports menus, windows, point and click, high res graphics...

Which, by the way, you were willing to give out for free,

Who are you hiding from, me or your mom?

Who do you want first?

Whoo!

Why has Lisa not heard of me?

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

Why'd you say you weren't my father?

Will I have to drop acid?

Will you absolve me of your Eastern European disapproval?

Woz wants a minute.

Woz.

Yeah, he did.

Yep.

Yes

You are truant. You're committing a crime.

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

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

You don't ask for a lot?

You had a college and university advisory board

You have a chip on your shoulder.

You haven't talked to him since '88?

You invented lifestyle advertising.

You knew it was a closed system.

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

You know,

You know, just big 10,000 gallon tanks of cold water, dropped from the ceiling.

You know, some things were said.

You know, when people used to ask me

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

You need special tools to open the Mac?

You obviously scared the hell out of her.

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

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

You want to watch from backstage?

You were less than 90 days from being insolvent

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

You're a good man, John.

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

You're going to fix it, now.

You're insubordinate, you make people miserable.

You're not in trouble. I was kidding.

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

You're the best in your row.

You've priced NeXT at 6,500.

Your computer's gonna fail.

Your products are better than you are, brother

20,000 a month after that.

And when will that be? Very soon.

And you know I know people. What are you talking about?

Bye. Lisa, in the hall. Now.

Can I get a quick reaction to the press this morning? What about it?

Can I tell you something? Yeah.

Clouds, love and life? Right.

Did they? Absolutely not

Did you hear what I said? Did you?

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

Everybody? I want to clear the auditorium. Nobody moves.

Fix it? Yeah.

How are you doin'? Terrible.

How do you know? I read ahead.

I thought you went to school. Hang on.

I was hoping for a quote from Steve. I'll tell you on background

I'll take care of your mother. Keep up the good work.

It's 9:00 in the morning. This is a '55 Margaux.

It's a big morning. Yeah.

Joanna... 20,000 a month after that.

Liberating the skinheads. The ad didn't have anything to do with fucking skinheads

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

No. Steve.

One more thing. Sure.

Playing in front of thousands of people. Steve!

Stop screaming at Lisa. I give her responsibilities.

Surprisingly, he... He didn't beat the living shit out of you?

That wasn't an oversight. They know that. They know it wasn't.

That we paid terrorists to be in our TV commercial. John...

Thirty nine sharks. Okay.

This can't be Lisa. It is.

We think that's legal? No, we're very certain it's not.

We think... He'll get it when it's finished.

We're not starting late, ever! Fine!

What size shirt do you wear? Me?

What? I killed the Newton because of the stylus.

What? I think that's enough.

When are you gonna get furniture? It's not an easy process.

Who made that call? Doesn't matter.

Woz. Hey.

You can read it later. Thanks.

You coming too? Yes, I'm not gonna leave her in the hallway.

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

You probably were. Lock it in.

You said it was off by a little. It is.

You saw the Stewart Alsop newsletter? I did.

You tested it? Yeah.

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

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

'cause it's the right thing to do.

♪ All this time kept the promise you made ♪

♪ Come in, she said, I'll give you shelter from the storm ♪

♪ Here for you, doing the best we can ♪

♪ Hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn ♪

♪ I'll always do my best for her ♪

♪ Loving woman, loving man ♪

♪ Poisoned in the bushes and blown out on the trail ♪

♪ Something there's been lost ♪

♪ We grew up at midnight ♪

♪ We grew up at midnight ♪

♪ We used to tell them I was staying at yours ♪

♪ We were only kids then ♪

♪ When blackness was a virtue, the road was full of mud ♪

♪ With silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair ♪