Steve Jobs Page #12

WOZ:

I begged you, I begged you. The

Apple II accounted for 70% of

revenue, what’d you think was gonna

happen? You didn’t care enough

about the Apple II or the Lisa.

STEVE:

Let’s be really clear, I didn’t

care at all about the Apple II or

the Lisa.

WOZ:

I wasn’t pressured to do it. What I

said to the press was an honest if

tempered reflection of what I

believed.

STEVE:

Woz?

WOZ:

Yeah.

STEVE:

What the f*** is on your wrist?

WOZ:

You want to know?

STEVE:

I literally can’t wait.

WOZ:

Everyone’s going to be wearing this

in 10 years. It’s a Nixie Watch

made using Nixie tubes.

WOZ is showing STEVE his watch. It’s a chunky thing that

gives a large digital read-out of the time. The thing is that

the numbers look exactly like the kind of numbers that are on

a time-bomb when it counts down in the movies.

WOZ (CONT’D)

This is actually 40-year-old

technology--cold cathode tubes and

they’re running on 140 volts.

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WOZ (CONT’D)

I tilt my wrist 45 degrees and it’s

right there--hours and minutes--the

way our minds work.

STEVE:

Do me a favor--set the watch ahead

like you’re on a plane and changed

time zones.

WOZ:

Not a problem.

WOZ unscrews the face of the watch, the MacGyver-bomb numbers

look even worse as WOZ starts to press tiny buttons with the

tip of his pen.

STEVE:

Excuse me, flight attendant? The

man next to me would appear to be

detonating a bomb.

WOZ stops...

WOZ:

(pause)

You think it looks like a bomb?

STEVE:

Even right now I’m not a hundred

percent sure it isn’t.

WOZ:

(pause)

Maybe once people get used to-

STEVE:

Nope.

They sit in silence a moment...

WOZ:

(pause)

I was angry. You were saying things

about the Apple II and the way you

were treating the (team)-

STEVE:

(over)

Woz--you get a free pass for life,

okay?

(beat--standing)

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STEVE (CONT'D)

I’ve gotta get back onstage, we’ve

got like two minutes of rehearsal

time left.

STEVE heads for the door but he’s stopped by-

WOZ:

Do you understand how condescending

that just was? Maybe you (don’t,

maybe)-

STEVE:

(over)

I don’t want to see you dragged off

an airplane in plastic handcuffs,

how is that-

WOZ:

I get a free pass for life? From

you? You’re the one who gives out

the passes?! You give ‘em to me?!!

STEVE:

You’re gonna have a stroke, li’l

buddy.

WOZ:

What did you do?! What did you do?!

Why has Lisa not heard of me?

STEVE:

Sh*t, man, how many fourth-graders

have heard of you?

WOZ:

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, Jeff Raskin was the

leader of the Mac team before you

threw him off his own project...

everything! Somebody else designed

the box! So how come 10 times in a

day I read Steve Jobs is a genius?

What do you do?

STEVE:

I play the orchestra. And you’re a

good musician.

(pointing)

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STEVE (CONT'D)

You sit right there. You’re the

best in your row.

WOZ:

I came here to clear the air. You

know why I came here?

STEVE:

Didn’t you just (answer that?)

WOZ:

(over)

I came here ‘cause you’re gonna get

killed. Your computer is going to

fail. You had a college and

university advisory board telling

you they need a powerful

workstation for 2 to 3 thousand,

you’ve priced NeXT at 6500, which

doesn’t include the optional three

thousand-dollar hard drive 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 who 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 because 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 who knows

that this guy here is someone you

invented. I’m standing by you

‘cause that perfect cube that does

nothing is about to be the single

biggest failure in the history of

personal computing.

STEVE wants to tear into WOZ and he considers it for a quick

moment but instead of doing that he says this...

STEVE:

(pause)

Tell me something else I don’t

know.

STEVE opens the door and walks out into-

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JOANNA’s waiting.

STEVE:

Back on stage?

JOANNA:

We’re out of time. They’ve got to

mop the stage and open the house.

STEVE looks at her...

STEVE:

(pause)

If it crashes it crashes, right?

JOANNA:

You’ll make a joke.

STEVE:

I’ll make a joke.

JOANNA:

If it crashes it crashes.

STEVE:

It’s a good slogan. “NeXT: If it

Crashes it Crashes.”

JOANNA:

(quietly)

I’m not just talking about the

demo. Steve? If it tanks we don’t

swallow cyanide, we go back to thedrawing board.

STEVE:

No more drawing boards. You inventthe Edsel twice and you don’t get

anymore drawing boards. So let’s

not-JOANNA

Tell me what the plan is. You haveto tell me the plan because I don’tknow. You’re walking around like

you’ve got can’t-lose cards.

STEVE:

The plan will reveal itself to youwhen you’re ready to see it.

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JOANNA:

Will I have to drop acid?

STEVE:

Couldn’t hurt.

JOANNA:

Is there a plan?

STEVE:

Have I ever let you down?

JOANNA:

Every single goddamn time.

STEVE:

Then I’m due.

JOANNA:

Is there?

STEVE:

Joanna, there is a plan. But I

don’t want to put you in a position

where you’re lying to people.

JOANNA considers this a moment...

JOANNA:

(pause)

Start 15 minutes late so Avie (can

recompile and try to give us a

fighting)-

STEVE:

Jesus Christ, how many times-

JOANNA:

Fine.

STEVE:

--are we gonna have this con--we’re

not starting late. Ever. We’re not

ever starting late.

JOANNA:

But where do you come down on

starting late?

STEVE takes a moment...

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STEVE:

Lisa’s been doing this thing where

she asks me about stuff I’ve

already told her. She asks me

questions and I know she already

knows the answers. What’s that

about?

JOANNA:

Kids do that when they’re scared

one of their parents is in a bad

mood. They try to get you talking

about something you like. It’s very

common and can be treated by

talking to her about things she

likes.

STEVE:

(pause)

Do have any training or experience

in this field?

JOANNA:

No.

STEVE:

Tell ‘em to open the house.

STEVE heads down the hall a little, opens the door and walks

into-

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