Pirates of Silicon Valley Page #6

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What's wrong with naming her Orisha?

Or Sunshine or Purity?

A kid's got enough problems

in this world...

...not knowing where it belongs.

A name can label a kid.

Make it--

It can make it an outsider.

Not it.

Her.

Her.

Lisa.

Okay-

okay-

She's your daughter too.

Arlene. let's not go through that again.

You don't just live in life.

You change it, you shape it.

you make your mark upon it.

And that's what. get used to the name...

...Lisa is gonna do.

Yeah!

You know, that computer was

the first big new project we had at Apple.

And some people are still wondering

why Steve insisted on that name.

You wanna call a computer Lisa?

Isn't that your baby's--?

I mean--

What's her name? Arlene.

Isn't that Arlene's baby's name?

Other guys here

have daughters named Lisa.

Steve. you got a baby up there

you don't even wanna talk about.

- I mean. it looks sort of...

- Sort of what?

We have to think of ourselves as artists.

It's like Picasso said:

Good artists copy. Great artists steal.

This is who we wanted

to steal from. Xerox.

They were secretly developing

all this amazing stuff...

...like the mouse and the graphics on the

screen instead of just a bunch of numbers.

But when those California engineers

had to go to New York...

...and present all this neat stuff

to the Xerox brass...

---those executives didn't begin

to understand what they were looking at.

Never mind a mouse. It was like someone

dumped a dead rat on the boardroom table.

A mouse.

You want Xerox to consider

something called a mouse?

See. this is where Steve was a genius...

"because he persuaded Xerox

into showing us all this incredible stuff...

...their California guys had developed.

I tell you, it was making their people

absolutely nuts.

Oh. God.

Let's go.

You know, I felt like

one of the Mongol hordes...

---coming to loot and plunder

a bunch of defenseless villagers.

No. no. This is insane.

We'd just be handing him everything.

We created the mouse and all the rest of it.

and now these idiots in New York...

...want to show it all to Steve Jobs.

I won't do it.

Hi. I'm Steve Jobs.

I need you to answer some other questions

about the stuff you've invented.

The graphic interface?

It's not going to hurt.

That's what you think.

- What do you want to know?

- How does it--?

What is your base length?

Is it integer. or is it compound?

Does your operating system

convert to executable codes?

- I got it. I got it. Steve-O. I got it. Steve-O.

- What is the middle--?

It's pretty neat, right?

Click. you're there.

Click. you're somewhere else.

This graphic interface stuff was like

a miracle back then. and we got it.

Steve got it, from Xerox. who just

turned it all over for us to fool with.

Like rich people giving junky old stuff

to the Salvation Army...

...only the junk turns out

to be a Rembrandt.

About $100 billion head start

on everyone else.

Apple was making tons of money.

It was great.

And of course. I sort of lost my mind.

I mean. it was all fun and games.

I started buying really expensive toys.

It was me with my own plane.

Only problem was, maybe I wasn't

as good a pilot as I thought I was.

I mean. it's one thing

when computers crash, but planes?

You don't want to know.

Hey. Steve. Are you just getting here?

No. I was just outside

talking to the doctor.

You don't remember us

talking 10 minutes ago?

- We talked?

- Yeah.

Hey. my hard disk crashed.

A computer guy with memory problems.

Oh. man.

It's the weirdest thing.

You know there's a part of your life there...

...only you don't know about it.

It makes you crazy.

Hey.

Hey!

Paul.

Simonyi. get Matthews.

Ballmer. get in here.

- What is it?

- This is seriously crummy.

Apple's new computer. Lisa? We're dead.

Oh. yeah. I've already seen one.

The graphics and the operating system

they have...

...they make what we're selling IBM

look a decade out-of-date.

- I want it.

- What do you mean, you want it?

- It's Apple's. We can't just go and steal it.

- You're not listening to me. I want it.

Final call for TWA flight 2684

to San Jose. Final call.

- Fifty bucks he misses the flight.

- You're on.

It wouldn't hurt to buy a car radio. Bill.

- I can't pick up the radio--

- One traffic report.

- Hold on.

- Sir. we're on this plane.

I'm sorry. Your plane is on the runway.

Ma'am. what kind of service

is this today?

I'm sorry. sir. There's nothing that can bring

that plane back to the gate.

Yes. there is. Willpower. I'm going to will

that that plane be turned around.

- Oh. really?

- Really. sir.

Are you aware that today in my briefcase

are computer language codes?

- Do you know what they do. sir?

- I'm afraid I don't.

They protect against viruses.

You're aware of viruses. I presume?

- Sir. I do go to doctors.

- No. sir. computer viruses.

Oh. yeah. I just read an article

about those things.

- They can wipe out a whole computer.

- A whole system of computers.

Like the one behind your terminal there.

like the one in the plane...

...like the one on all planes in the airlines.

like the one in the control tower. sir.

I ask you. are you prepared

to take responsibility for your actions...

...if I don't get this information

on that plane?

Jeez. his reputation for inconveniencing

the rest of the world is intact.

He actually missed a flight.

This is your captain speaking. We have

to return to the gate for a few minutes.

Nothing critical.

- Attention. please. flight...

Nour tickets. phase.

- You have the tickets. right?

- No. I gave them to you.

Bill. in the car.

Wow. These guys must be

50 times bigger than we are.

Good artists copy. Great artists steal.

- Oh. yeah? Who said that?

- Some artist. I think it was Van Gogh.

Hey. check it out.

Aye. matey. It wouldn't be time

to rape and pillage. would it?

You sure it's okay

to let these Microsoft guys in here?

We have culture. They don't.

No taste. No original thinking.

But they can be useful to us.

Time for the dog and pony show.

Welcome to Apple.

Bill.

Nice to see you. Thanks for coming.

Steve.

- How you doing. Steve?

- Glad you're here. Paul. Hi. Steve Jobs.

- Hi. Charles Simonyi.

- Come on in. Let me introduce you.

This is Gilmore.

He's one of our top programmers.

And he's a loyal man.

Well. to do this. you need loyalty.

- Total loyalty. isn't that right?

- That's the plan. Steve.

This way. The Macintosh team.

It's more like a family.

Everybody else is an outsider.

- What's with the pirate stuff?

- What do I always tell you?

Better to be a pirate than join the Navy.

- You a pirate?

- Oh. yeah. Yeah. absolutely. Steve.

I've been up for 52 hours straight.

LoyaliY-

I'm gonna show you the future.

It's top-secret. It's still about...

...a year away from introduction.

The ultimate. insanely great...

...fusion of art and science.

- It's called the Macintosh.

- This is definitely not the Lisa.

That's a graphic user interface.

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