Not My Favourite Play

Like Gloucester at the end 

of his cliff, eh, Watson?

"The Universe — the entire space-time continuum, from big bang to heat death, no less — was not a linear stream of events 

with beginning, middle, and end. 

That was only how it felt from the inside. 

In fact, the totality of existence looked more like a ball of sphincters, constantly moving through itself in a way that was hypnotic and awe inspiring to observe. There was Shakespeare scribbling King Lear 

on one wrinkled fold, and just around the corner from him, 

forever out of his line of sight, was the Cretaceous period and tyrannosaurs padding past his wife Anne Hathaway’s cottage.

And, as if to confirm that ours was not the only universe, it was explained to me that what I was seeing was a nursery of some kind. In order to grow their “offspring,” the chrome angels had to “make” time, because, as they pointed out reasonably, only in time were things able to grow as I understood it. Time was a kind of incubator, and all life on Earth was one thing, a single weird anemone-like mega-Hydra with its single-celled immortal root in the Precambrian tides and its billions of sensory branches, from ferns to people, with every single detail having its own part to play in the life cycle of a slowly complexifying, increasingly self-aware super-organism. It was as if I had been shown an infant god, attached to a placental support system called Earth, where it could grow bigger, more elaborate, more connected, and more intelligent. 

Growing at its tips were machine parts; 

cyborg tools made from the planet’s mineral resources. 

It seemed to be constructing around itself a part-mechanical shell, like armor or a spacesuit. “It” was us, all life seen as one from the perspective of a higher dimension.

I was told to return and take up my duties as a “midwife” to this gargantuan raw nervous system. It was important to ensure the proper growth and development of the larva and to make certain it didn’t panic or struggle too much when it woke up to its true nature as a singular life form. Incidentally, what we experienced as “evil” was simply the effects of inoculation against some cosmic disease, so I wasn’t to worry much.

Sigmund Freud: 

Who am I, that your friends should wish us to meet? 

Sherlock Holmes: 

Beyond the fact that you are a brilliant Jewish physician 

who was born in Hungary and studied for a while in Paris, 

and that certain radical theories of yours 

have alienated the respectable medical community, 

so that you have severed your connections with various hospitals 

and branches of the medical fraternity, 

beyond this I can deduce little. 

You're married, with a child of five. 

You enjoy Shakespeare and possess 

a keen sense of honour.

Sherlock Holmes: 

I never guess : it is an appalling habit, 

destructive to the logical faculty. 

A private study is an ideal place for 

observing facets of a man's character --

That the study belongs to you exclusively 

is evident from the dust : 

not even The Maid is permitted here, 

else she would scarcely have ventured 

to let matters come to this pass. 

Sigmund Freud: 

Go on. 

Sherlock Holmes: 

Very well. Now, when a man collects books on a subject, 

they're usually grouped together, but notice, 

your King James Bible, your Book of Mormon, 

and Koran are separate, across the room in fact, 

from your Hebrew Bible and Talmud, 

which sit on your desk. 

Now these books have a special importance for you 

not connected with a general study of religion, obviously. 

The nine-branched candelabra on your desk 

confirms my suspicion that you are of the Jewish faith; 

it is called a menorah, is it not? 

Sigmund Freud: 

Ja. 

Sherlock Holmes: 

That you studied medicine in Paris is to be inferred 

from the great number of medical texts in that language. 

Where else should a German use French textbooks but in France, 

and who but a brilliant German could understand 

the complexities of medicine in a foreign tongue? 

That you're fond of Shakespeare is to be deduced 

from this book, which is lying face downwards. 

The fact that you have not adjusted the volume 

suggests to my mind that you no doubt intended 

referring to it again in the near future. (Hm, not my favorite play.) 

The absence of dust on the cover 

would tend to confirm this hypothesis. 

That you're a physician is evident when 

I observe you maintain a consulting room. 

Your separation from various societies 

is indicated by these blank spaces 

surrounding your diploma, 

clearly used at one time to display 

additional certificates. 

Now, what can it be that forces a man to remove 

these testimonials to his success? 

Why, only that he has ceased to affiliate himself 

with these various societies and hospitals and so forth, 

and why do this, having once troubled to join them all? 

It is possible that he became disenchanted 

with one or two of them, 

but NOT likely that his disillusionment 

extended to all. Rather, I postulate 

it is THEY who became disenchanted 

with YOU, Doctor, and asked you 

to resign, from all of them. 

Why, I've no idea. But some position 

you have taken, evidently a medical one, 

has discredited you in their eyes. 

I take the liberty of inferring a theory of some sort, 

too radical or shocking to gain ready acceptance 

in current medical thinking. 

Your wedding ring tells me of your marriage, 

your Balkanized accent hints Hungary or Moravia, 

the toy soldier on the floor here ought, I think, 

to belong to a... small boy of five? 

Have I omitted anything of importance? 

Sigmund Freud: 

My sense of Honour. 

Sherlock Holmes: 

Oh, it is implied by the fact that you have removed the plaques 

from the societies to which you no longer belong. 

In the privacy of your study, only 

you would know the difference.

Sculley's The Skeptic

For Whatever Reason, Ray --

Call it Fate.

Call it Luck. 

Call it Karma --

I Believe that 

Everything Happens for a Reason.

 

I Believe, that We 

Were Destined to get thrown outta 

this dump.

RAY

For what Purpose?

PETER

To go into Business for Ourselves.

Offers RAY a swig from his bottle of 

The Magic Potion That Turns Them into Ghostbusters. 

RAY drinks.

RAY

This ecto-containment system that Spengler and I have in mind is going to require a load of bread to capitalize --

Where are we going to get The Money?

PETER

I don't know.

drinks

I don't know.

Kendrick : 

This girl supposedly has some kinda supernatural powers.

Det. Kate Lockley : 

Really?

Kendrick : 

Come on, Kate. 

Everybody knows you've gone all Scully. 

Any time one of these weird cases crosses anyone's desk, you're always there. 

What's goin' on with you?

Kate Lockley : 

Scully’s The Skeptic.

Kendrick : 

Huh?

Kate Lockley : 

Mulder's The Believer. 

Scully's The Skeptic.

Kendrick : 

Scully's The Chick, right?

Kate Lockley : 

Yes. But she's not 

The One That Wants to Believe.

Kendrick : 

And you wanna believe?

Kate Lockley : 

Oh, I already believe. 

That's The Problem.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

Thank merciful God.

The Cavalry's shown up.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

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.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

It's 9:00 in the morning.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

This is a '55 Margaux.

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

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

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

Instead we should have just dropped water on the audience.

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

Save Mike some money on index cards.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Oh, just relax.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

Why?

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

I don't know --

No one's ever asked me that question.

There you go.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

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

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

No one sees The World the same way you do.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

I'm like Julius Caesar, John.

I'm surrounded by enemies.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

No, you're not.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

The board...

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Oh, the board. 

The board's behind you.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

Only because you see to it they are.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

I think it's a good board, 

but if you want me to push them out

one by one, we can talk about that.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

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 --

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

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

Yeah, yeah. Yesterday, the day after it airs once, the publisher of Adweek calls it the best commercial of 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.

Ladies and Gentlemen, 

"1984."

The first glorious anniversary of the information

purification directives.

We have created for the first time in all history a garden of pure ideology where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests purveying contradictory thoughts.

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

We are one people...

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Did we use skinheads as extras?

A couple of people have told me that.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

Yeah.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

We paid skinheads? 

I've got skinheads on my payroll?

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

They had a look you wanted.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

The skinheads?

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

Yeah.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Okay, let's keep that to ourselves.

We shall prevail.

On January 24th, Apple

Computer will introduce Macintosh.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Who else knows?

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

Who else knows what?

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

That we paid terrorists to be in our TV commercial.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

John...

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

They were wrong about the ad, but they're a good board. 

Good People.

Their only problem... 

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

Their Problem is that They're People. People. 

The very Nature of People is something to be overcome.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

When I was running Pepsi, we had a lot of success focusing on 18-to-55-year-olds who weren't members of violent hate groups.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

I get it.

JOHN SCULLEY,

(Sculley's The Skeptic) :

You're not surrounded by enemies.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

We're almost there.

I'm back and forth on The Dylan.

I might quote a different verse.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

What are The Choices?

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

"For The Loser now will be later to win,"

which is what we have.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Mm-hmm. Or?

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

"Come mothers and fathers throughout the land and don't criticize what you can't understand.

Your sons and your daughters"...

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

"..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?

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

That came out of nowhere.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

"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-changin'.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

I don't feel rejected.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

You're sure?

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

Very sure.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

'Cause 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.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

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?

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

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

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

Keep your 100 bucks. 

I'm sticking with the first verse.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Good.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

What the hell does he mean?

Nothing.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

I'm proud of you.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

Thank you, boss.

It's my pleasure to introduce my friend and the CEO of Apple,

John Sculley.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

John?

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Yeah?

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

Lisa made a painting on the Mac.

******

Six minutes.

You want to see Sculley?

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

No.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

You know all those times I told you you needed security?

Here's why.

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?

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

As it turns out, John, 

I've never known what you were thinking.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

No newborn baby has control.

Do you know what I'm talking about?

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

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

Yeah.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

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

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

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

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Why do people think I fired you?

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

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

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Is it? Hmm?

Don't play stupid. 

You can't pull it off.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

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

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Why do people think I fired you?

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

Just confirm something for me, okay?

You liked the ad, right?

The commercial... "1984." You liked it.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

When are you gonna get furniture?

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

It's not an easy process.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

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

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

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

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

I liked the ad very much.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

You did?

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

You know I did.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

You're a lying son of a bitch. 

You tried to kill it.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

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

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

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.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

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

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

Lee Clow.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Lee's wrong.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

He's lying?

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

He's... mistaken.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Where would the money come from?

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

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

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

The Apple II is the only thing making money.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

You agreed with the board.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

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

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

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

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Among other things, but my question was...

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

What other things?

I'm asking because I'm curious.

You said "among other things."

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

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.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

The Mac needs to sell for 1,995.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

There is no market research telling us 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, but it isn't.

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

The way we buy stereos... mix and match components.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

John, listen to me. 

Whoever said the customer is always right

was, I promise you, a customer.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

It had skinheads in it.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

She was liberating them.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Liberating the skinheads.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

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...

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

You invented lifestyle advertising.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

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!

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

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

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

I can't.

And we showed the product.

We showed it being opened, 

we showed it being poured, being consumed.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

What are you gonna do, recommend that we kill the Mac?

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

I already have, Steve.

What? When?

You think the secret to your success was not assuming people knew what to do with a can of soda?

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

I didn't kill the ad, Steve! 

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

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

Just now. An hour ago.

I'm coming from Markkula's house.

What did he say?

What did he say?

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Invent something new.

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

The resorts come with couches.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

Wait a minute. 

Are you saying you recommended terminating the Mac

or you recommended taking me off the Mac team?

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

We bought three spots in the Super Bowl. Two 30's and a 60.

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 30's 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.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

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

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Drop the price or double the budget.

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

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

The Apple II should embarrass you. It embarrasses me.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

It doesn't embarrass the shareholders.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

I don't give a shit about the shareholders.

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

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

The shareholders are my problem, and the board represents the shareholders.

That's How it Works.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

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

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

At my direction, Steve.

You think he would have done that on his own, 

taken it on himself?

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

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

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

I was the only thing protecting it.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

You didn't want the ad because you were trying to kill the

Mac two months before it launched.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

You are fucking delusional.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

Can I mention something to you?

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Sure.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

I have no earthly idea why you're here.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

The Story of Why and How You Left Apple,

which is quickly becoming mythologized, isn't True.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

I'm gonna take this to the board myself.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Don't do that.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

I am doing that.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

You can't.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

Why?

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

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

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

I get hate mail, death threats.

I get death threats.

My kids are getting taunted.

Why do people think I fired you?

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

Joanna's gonna call my name in a second.

Steve?

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

That was unrehearsed.

Yeah, I'll be there in just a second.

I gave you your day in court.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

You gave me?

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

I gave the board a clear choice.

I said, 

"Do you want to invest in the Apple

II or the Mac?" 

They chose the Apple II.

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

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

And then I got on a plane to China.

Mr. Sculley. There's a call for you on Line One.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Or I almost got on a plane, because I got a call in the lounge.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

Who made that call?

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Doesn't matter.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

It matters to me. Who made the call?

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

John Sculley.

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.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

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.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

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

The quorum call was a homicide.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Right there! 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 gonna do?

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

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

I'm not okay losing.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

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

Our only hope is the Apple II, 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 II.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

By taking resources from the Mac.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

It's failing. That's a fact.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

It's overpriced.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

There's no evidence that it's...

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

I'm the evidence!

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

What's your resume?

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

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.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

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.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

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.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

I fucking dare you.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

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.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

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.

Now, I absolutely understand why you're upset.

And I want people to know The Truth too.

It's time.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

Got it.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

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

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

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.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Jesus Christ.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

 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.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

Come on in, honey.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

It's not "honey."

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

John.

Get in. Get in. 

Get out of the hall.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

I was taken in a side entrance.

I'll go out the same way. No one will see me.

How are you, 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.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

My pleasure.

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

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

I'm just here to say "good luck."

Okay.

You just have a couple of minutes.

Would you try to find...

Yeah.

You're a good man, John.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

So I brought you a present.

A Newton.

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?

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

Uh, no...

Just something Joanna pointed out to me.

I missed something so obvious about...

Doesn't matter.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

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.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

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.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

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

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

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

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 giving back.

And what if instead of it

being in the right hands,

it was in everyone's hands?

Everyone in the world.

We'd be talking about the most

tectonic shift in the status quo since...

Ever.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

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.

And you're telling me you have the right computer.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

It's called Macintosh.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

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.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

What happened?

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

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.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

You can't refuse to love someone, Steve.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

Yeah, it turns out, you can.

What the hell can a one-month-old do that's so bad his parents give him back?

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

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

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

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

I've met my biological father.

For that matter, so have you.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

It's called Macintosh.

Mr. Steve Jobs.

STEVEN PAUL 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?

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

You're kidding me.

No, I'll eat anything.

Why don't you start off with the Mediterranean

lettuce salad with purslane, mint...

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

My sister found him.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Does he know?

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

No. In fact, he bragged to Mona that Steve Jobs comes in

the restaurant all the time.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

You don't want to...

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

No.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Don't you think you should talk to him?

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

He'd probably find a reason to sue me.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Oh, Steve...

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

John, if you're here about your legacy, you need to form a line behind Wozniak.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Wozniak's gonna be fine.

I'm the guy who fired Steve Jobs.

Rich, college-educated and Catholic....

Steve? It's time.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

I've gotta go.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

Did I do this? Screw it up?

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

Let's let it go now.

Has to be time.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

Come be our CEO.

Yeah. Okay.

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

It was the stylus, John.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

What?

STEVEN PAUL JOBS :

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.

JOHN SCULLEY,

CEO of Apple Computer :

God, the things we could've done.....