Wozniak's Cave

I sat in a fucking garage with Wozniak and invented The Future.

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

JOBS :

There wasn't a single fight you lost.

WOZ :

Do you concede the slots are the reason for the success of the Apple II?

JOBS :

We can't still be talking about the slots.

WOZ :

I have a point.

JOBS :

It's been seven years. 

You're still doing it. 

You're talking about the slots.

There's something wrong with you.

This argument started in The Garage.

WOZ :

What are you talking about? 

Why would you only want two slots?

JOBS :

A printer and a modem.

WOZ :

With eight slots, you...

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

JOBS :

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

WOZ :

And Thank God I won that argument...

JOBS :

 Woz.

WOZ :

Because the open system is what people love about the machine, and it's why it sold and still sells.

JOBS :

An open system. 

We're not doing an open system.

WOZ :

Of course we are. 

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

JOBS :

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

WOZ :

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 II to run, for just one example, VisiCalc, which from my guess single-handedly sold

between 200,000 and 300,000 machines.

They want slots.

JOBS :

 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...

WOZ :

Hobbyists...

JOBS :

We're on the verge of a tectonic... Hobbyists?

A printer and a modem. Two slots.

The Apple II team has my affection, but I'm not loving up a seven-year-old product at the Mac launch.

WOZ :

Computers aren't paintings.

JOBS :

Fuck you.

I'm gonna say "fuck you" every time you say that until you either die or stop saying it.

WOZ :

Steve...

JOBS :

Try it.

Steve.

JOBS :

Say it.

WOZ :

“Computers aren't paintings.”

JOBS :

Fuck you.

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

End-to-End Control. 

Completely incompatible with anything.

WOZ :

Computers aren't supposed to have human flaws– 

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