Saturday, 13 July 2019

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 PeoplePeople

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 
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.....


This is The Shark







TIME MAGAZINE GUY :
Who's this one?

JOBS :
Alan Turing.
Single-handedly won World War II and, for an encore, invented the computer.
 He won't be part of the campaign though.

TIME MAGAZINE GUY :
Why not?

JOBS :
'Cause you just had to ask me who he was.
Can I see new shark?
I like it better than the old shark.

Sharks.

- Sharks.

TIME MAGAZINE GUY :
How many sharks did you go through?

- A couple.

- This is the 39th.

JOBS :
We're on the record.

Thirty-nine sharks.

Okay.

You know what's special about this shark?

TIME MAGAZINE GUY :
What?

No, I'm really asking, 
because it looks exactly like the other 38 sharks to me.

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

This is cue 92-B.

This is a profile here, and this is what it looks like from the back.

And one more thing. 
It eats Pentium notebooks as a light snack.
This is the shark.
I really like it.

Nobody gets it right the first time, 
but I should have been shown this shark 15, 20 fish ago.

You probably were.

JOBS :
Lock it in.

Ten minutes.

TIME MAGAZINE GUY :
He killed himself by taking a bite of a poison apple... 
Alan Turing.

JOBS :
Yeah.
There should be statues of that man.
His name should be on the lips of schoolchildren.

TIME MAGAZINE GUY :
The rainbow flag apple with a bite taken out... 
That's where it came from?


JOBS :
No, we picked it off a list of friendly-sounding words.
But wouldn't it be great if that had been the story behind it?

Regretful Girlish




STEVE JOBS :
Lisa!

Our Lady :

You can't shout!

STEVE JOBS :
Lisa?

You have to go.

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

Who are you hiding from, me or your mom?

 
LISA :
I'm not hiding.

STEVE JOBS :
Let's go.

What were you listening to?

 

LISA :
I'm listening to Two Versions of The Same Song.

Then when I get to the ends, I rewind to listen to them again.

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

STEVE JOBS :
What's The Song?
 
LISA :
Okay. So it's a really old song, and it's called 
"Both Sides, Now."
 

STEVE JOBS :
"Both Sides, Now"?
 

LISA :
Yeah.
 
STEVE JOBS :
What's it about?

LISA :
It's about... There are Three Verses: Clouds, Love and Life.
And The Person Singing, is singing that they used to think of...
That they used to think about...
 
STEVE JOBS :
Clouds, Love and Life?
 

LISA :
Right.
One way, yeah, but now they look at them Another Way, and they... 

STEVE JOBS :
They've come to the conclusion that 
They really don't know Clouds, Love or Life at all.

LISA :
Those are The Exact Words.

STEVE JOBS :
Yeah, Joni Mitchell.
'Cause it's not A Really Old Song, unless I'm a Really Old Guy.
You have to go to school now.

 
LISA :
Do you want me to tell you the differences between The Two Versions?

STEVE JOBS :
Right now.


LISA :
The First Version is The Kind of Thing that you would call 'girlish'.

STEVE JOBS :
I didn't mean I want to know the difference right now.
I meant you have to go to school right now.

LISA :
I can Stay and Watch.

STEVE JOBS :
You are Truant. You're committing a Crime.


LISA :
I'm not gonna miss Anything Important.
 

STEVE JOBS :
How do you know?

LISA :
I read ahead.

The Pilgrims make it to The New World.
Then The Declaration of Independence.


STEVE JOBS :
Yeah, you skipped a couple centuries.

Steve? Chrisann's out there.


STEVE JOBS :
Let's Go.


LISA :
Can I make My Case for staying?


STEVE JOBS :
Nope.

She was with me.
 

Come on. 
Your Dad Doesn't Want Us to Stay.


STEVE JOBS :
That's Not True. That's not...
You have to be in school is all.


LISA :
I'm committing a Crime right now,
and I don't wanna get in trouble.


STEVE JOBS :
You're not in Trouble. 
I was kidding.


LISA :
Okay.


STEVE JOBS :
Hey. What was The Second Version?
You said The First Version was girlish. 
What was The second version?

LISA :
I can't really think of the word.


STEVE JOBS :
Okay. Well, have a good day at school.
 
LISA :
Regretful.
 
STEVE JOBS :
What?

LISA :
Like wishing you could go back and do things different.


STEVE JOBS :
You're too young to be regretful.


LISA :
Not me.
The person singing the song.


STEVE JOBS :
Got it. Regretful. That makes sense because...

LISA :
I wanna live with you. 




“ You know, my mother might be a troubled woman, but what's your excuse?
That's why I'm not impressed with your story, Dad.

It's that you knew what I was going through, and you didn't do anything about it.

And that makes you an
•unconscionable• coward. “


Steve Jobs: 
I'm gonna put music in your pocket. 

Lisa Brennan: 
What? 

Steve Jobs: 
A hundred songs. 
A thousand songs. 
Five hundred songs. 
Somewhere between five hundred and a thousand songs. 
Right in your pocket. 

Because I can't stand looking at that ridiculous Walkman anymore. You're carrying around a brick, playing a cassette tape. 

We're Not Savages. 

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

Lisa Brennan: 
You can do that? 

Steve Jobs: 
We're very close. 
All I have to do really is wipe out the record business as we know it and we'll be all set.

NEVER Take Your Eyes Off Your Opponent






NEVER Take Your Eyes Off Your Opponent —


Even When You BOW .....

The Key to Time is a Perfect Cube



THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY
 
PICARD:
Mister Worf, dispatch a subspace message to Admiral Hanson.
We Have Engaged The Borg.

WORF:

Captain -- 
YOU are Being Hailed.

PICARD:

I am?

WORF:
Yes, Captain. By Name.

RIKER:
Data, is it the same ship we faced at J two five?

DATA:
Uncertain, Commander, but 
The Dimensions are PRECISELY The Same.



PICARD:
What is it, Number One?

RIKER:
We've picked up A Vessel on the long range scanners, headed this way.

PICARD:
Analysis.

DATA:
The Vessel is traveling at warp seven point six.
Mass two point five million metric tons.

Configuration : Cubical.




GUINAN:
Soran doesn't care about Weapons or Power.
He just cares about getting back to The NeXus.

PICARD:

What's 'The NeXus'?


GUINAN:
The energy ribbon that destroyed that ship was just not some random phenomenon travelling through The Universe. 

It's A Doorway to Another Place 
That We Call The NeXus.
 
And it's A Place that I've tried very, VERY hard to forget.

The Macintosh, Apple's near mythological home computer, has gotten off to a rocky start in its battle with industry titan IBM.
With sales originally projected to be a million in the first quarter, Apple has sold only 35,000 of the user-friendly machines in the months since it's been available to customers.


The insistence by Steve Jobs that it have what's called end-to-end control, which is a way of saying that it's not compatible with most outside hardware or software, is the Shakespearean flaw in a machine that had potential.


Apple Computers closed two of its factories today in the wake of disappointing sales.


Do you know how many Macs were sold last month? 500.
In a move that surprised some but not all on Wall Street, the board of directors of Apple Computers voted today to fire its cofounder Steve Jobs.

Did he jump or was he pushed?

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


However, in an exclusive interview, Steve Wozniak has slammed the integrity of his old friend Steve Jobs.


He calls Jobs an insulting and hurtful guy.
Jobs is hitting back with a new company and a new computer.

Apple has a new competitor.
Steve Jobs's Black Cube is aimed at the education market.

Few people have the ability to make the world wait, but that is just what Jobs is doing with his new company, NeXT.


STEVE JOBS :
Hang on.
You were supposed to go to school an hour ago. 
I thought you left.
 
LISA, Daughter of Steve Jobs 
(according to some) :
I didn't wake up My Mom on time this morning.

It's happened before too.

I wake up with the alarm and then I get dressed and eat breakfast, but sometimes I forget to see what time it is after that.




STEVE JOBS :
Why doesn't Your Mom just set her own alarm clock?




LISA, Daughter of Steve Jobs 
(according to some) :
It's one of My Chores.

 
STEVE JOBS : 
I don't understand what that has to do with why you're still...
Where's Your Mother?
 

LISA, Daughter of Steve Jobs 
(according to some) :
She went to find a pay phone.
 

STEVE JOBS :
An hour ago, she said...
You don't have to raise your hand.


LISA, Daughter of Steve Jobs 
(according to some) :
You said it was off by a little.


STEVE JOBS :
It is.


LISA, Daughter of Steve Jobs 
(according to some) :
I just measured it.


STEVE JOBS :
Joanna...
 

LISA, Daughter of Steve Jobs 
(according to some) :
Exactly a foot on all four sides.
 

STEVE JOBS :
There are six sides.
But you're not supposed to be here right now.
 

LISA, Daughter of Steve Jobs 
(according to some) :
We know if four of the sides are equal to each other, the other two must be equal as well.
 

STEVE JOBS : 
The top, bottom, right and left are about a millimeter shorter than the front and back.
 

LISA, Daughter of Steve Jobs 
(according to some) :
They're not. I measured them.
 


STEVE JOBS :
Lisa, I'm kind of An Expert in Design.
And that's a 20-cent ruler. 
You think there's a chance it could be off?
 


LISA, Daughter of Steve Jobs 
(according to some) :
If I had another ruler, I would measure this ruler, but I really doubt it's off.


STEVE JOBS :
When Your Mother comes back, you have to go to school.


LISA, Daughter of Steve Jobs 
(according to some) :
Because it's a ruler! 
Why is it off?
Did you hear what I just said?


STEVE JOBS :
Yes.

LISA, Daughter of Steve Jobs 
(according to some) :
  Because sometimes it seems like you just keep saying what you want without listening.

 
STEVE JOBS :
I'm Listening.
Is there Something You Need?
[Her Father.]


LISA, Daughter of Steve Jobs 
(according to some) :
No.
Why isn't it A Perfect Cube?


STEVE JOBS :
You've asked me before.


LISA, Daughter of Steve Jobs 
(according to some) :
I forget what it is.
 
 

STEVE JOBS : 
It's an optical anomaly.
To The Human Eye, A Perfect Cube doesn't look like A Cube, so we made it roughly a millimeter shorter than a foot on two sides.


LISA, Daughter of Steve Jobs 
(according to some) :
What's an anomaly?


STEVE JOBS : 
You've asked me that before too.
I don't know why you keep doing that.
[Because she likes to hear YOU explain it.]
It's an exception. Something that doesn't fit a pattern.
You have to go to school. Come in!


I think you two have met.



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


What's left to finish?


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


An Operating System?


Yeah.


What do you mean?


Well, the OS is what runs The Computer.
In fact, it sort of is The Computer.


How has it been running? How's it gonna run this morning?
What do you mean, you don't have an OS?


It's like this. 
Avie Tevanian is our chief software designer, and he wrote a demo program.
It's like we built a great car, but we haven't built The Engine.
So we put a golf cart battery in there to make it go for a bit.
All this computer knows how to do right now is demonstrate itself.


You're telling me the only thing you've built is 
A Black Cube?


Yes. Yeah.
But isn't it The Coolest Black Cube you've ever seen?


Is this... We're off The Record.
Is this a Strategy or a Problem? If it's a Problem...


Do not share proprietary knowledge with that man.


It's not a Problem.
I wouldn't understand it anyway.


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


It's got e-mail.

Well, e-mail's not just for tech specialists anymore.
Well, it is, but it won't be.


And I assume an e-mail sent on a NeXT computer can only be received by a NeXT computer?
Closed, end-to-end.
The new trash can is wrong.
I wanna tell you I appreciate all the hours you put into it, 
but I can't because of how terrible it is.
Go back to the other one.
Why are we still giving three options on The Clock?

How many options do you want to give?


Two. 
Buy it or Don't.


Can I talk to you for a second?


Abso-fruitly.


Uh, look, man. Avie's been recompiling, but he says there may be some glitches this morning.
If all there are are some glitches, it'll be a triumph of miraculous magnitude.
Why are you translating for Avie?

I-I didn't want him to find out the hard way your position on glitches in a demo, but it sounds like you've mellowed.

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

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

Fantastic burn.



Steve Wozniak: 
I was angry. You were saying things about the Apple II, 
and the way you were treating the team... 

Steve Jobs: 
Woz, you get a free pass for life. 
I gotta get back on stage; we got like, two minutes of rehearsal time left. 

Steve Wozniak: 
Do you understand how condescending that just was? 
Maybe you don't... 

Steve Jobs: 
I don't wanna see you get dragged off... 

Steve Wozniak: 
I get a free pass for life from you? You give out the passes? You give them to me

Steve Jobs: 
You're gonna have a stroke, little buddy. 

Steve Wozniak: 
What did you do? What did you do? 
Why has Lisa not heard of me? 

Steve Jobs: 
How many fourth graders HAVE heard of you? 

Steve Wozniak: 
You can't write code... you're not an engineer... you're not a designer... you can't put a hammer to a nail. 
 
I built the circuit board. 
The graphical interface was stolen from Xerox Parc. 
Jef Raskin was the leader of the Mac team before you threw him off his own project! 
Someone else designed The Box! 
 
So how come ten times in a day, 
I read Steve Jobs is a genius? 

What do you do? 

Steve Jobs: 
I play The Orchestra, and you're A Good Musician. 
You sit right there and you're The Best in Your Row. 

Steve Wozniak: 
I came here to clear the air. 
Do you know why I came here? 

Steve Jobs: 
Didn't you just answer that? 

Steve Wozniak: 
I came here 'cause you're gonna get killed
Your computer's gonna fail
 
You got a college and university advisory board telling you they need a powerful work station for two to three thousand. 

You priced NeXT at sixty-five hundred, and that doesn't include the optional three thousand dollar hardrive which people will discover isn't optional, because the optical disk is too weak to do anything, and the twenty-five hundred dollar laser printer brings the total to twelve thousand dollars, 
and in The Entire World you are 
The Only Person That Cares 
That it's housed in A Perfect Cube. 
 
You're gonna get Killed. 
 And I came here to Stand Next to You while that happens 'cause That's What Friends Do... 
That's What Men Do. 
 
I don't need your pass. 
We go back, so don't talk to me like I'm Other People. 
 
I'm The Only One That Knows that 
This Guy Here is someone you INVENTED
 
I'm standing by you because that Perfect Cube - that does nothing - is about to be the single biggest failure in the history of personal computing. 

Steve Jobs: 
Tell me something else I Don't Know.

Friday, 12 July 2019

Clean Maidenhood





“ When Pearl was first read in modern times it was accepted as what it purports to be, an elegy on the death of a child, the poet’s daughter. The personal interpretation was first questioned in 1904 by W. H. Schofield, who argued that the maiden of the poem was an allegorical figure of a kind usual in medieval vision literature, an abstraction representing ‘clean maidenhood’.

It has been objected that the child as seen in Heaven is not like an infant of two in appearance, speech, or manners: she addresses her father formally as sir, and shows no filial affection for him. But this is an apparition of a spirit, a soul not yet reunited with its body after the resurrection, so that theories relevant to the form and age of the glorified and risen body do not concern us. And as an immortal spirit, the maiden’s relations to the earthly man, the father of her body, are altered. She does not deny his fatherhood, and when she addresses him as sir she only uses the form of address that was customary for medieval children. Her part is in fact truly imagined. The sympathy of readers may now go out more readily to the bereaved father than to the daughter, and they may feel that he is treated with some hardness. But it is the hardness of truth. In the manner of the maiden is portrayed the effect upon a clear intelligence of the persistent earthliness of the father’s mind; all is revealed to him, and he has eyes, yet he cannot see. The maiden is now filled with the spirit of celestial charity, desiring only his eternal good and the cure of his blindness. 

It is not her part to soften him with pity, or to indulge in childish joy at their reunion. The final consolation of the father was not to be found in the recovery of a beloved daughter, as if death had not after all occurred or had no significance, but in the knowledge that she was redeemed and saved and had become a queen in Heaven. Only by resignation to the Will of God, and through death, could he rejoin her. “