Steve Jobs Page #4

ANDY:

We’re not a pit crew at Daytona,

this can’t be fixed in seconds.

STEVE:

You didn’t have seconds, you had

three weeks. The universe was

created in a third of that time.

ANDY:

Well someday you’ll have to tell us

how you did it.

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JOANNA can’t help a smile and small laugh. STEVE looks at

her...

STEVE:

Here’s what I’m going to do. I’m

going to announce the names of

everyone who designed the launch

demo--I’m gonna introduce everyone

and ask them to stand up. The bag

was designed by Susan Kare, the

Macintosh font that’s scrolling

across the screen was designed by

Steve Capps, the starry night and

the skywriting was Bruce Horn,

MacPaint, MacWrite, Alice, down to

the calculator and then I’m going

to say the voice demo that didn’t

work was designed by Andy

Hertzfeld.

ANDY laughs a little for a moment but STEVE stares at him and

ANDY realizes he’s serious. The others are looking down and

trying to make themselves look busy but there’s no saving

Andy here.

ANDY:

Steve-

STEVE:

Five in six is your chance of

surviving first round of Russian

roulette and you’ve reversed those

odds so unless you want to be

disgraced in front of your friends,

family, colleagues, stockholders

and the press, I wouldn’t stand

here arguing, I’d go try to get

some more bullets out of the gun.

(beat)

Do it, Andy.

ANDY nods to his team that they should come with him and get

back to work. As the team starts to walk away, STEVE sees one

of the engineers take a diskette out of his shirt pocket and

a light bulb goes off in his head.

STEVE (CONT’D)

Stop. You. What size shirt do you

wear?

ENGINEER:

Me?

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STEVE:

What size--does anyone know what

size shirt he wears? Does anyone

know what size shirt I wear?

JOANNA:

Does anyone know where the closest

psychiatrist is?

STEVE:

The disk fits in your pocket--I

need a shirt with a breast pocket,

I can take it out on stage.

ENGINEER:

A shirt?

STEVE:

The disk!

(to JOANNA)

I need a white shirt in my size

with a breast pocket.

JOANNA:

Yes. Which one of the no stores

that are open at 8:45 do you want

me to have someone run to and

return from in 15 minutes?

STEVE:

Go out in the lobby, find someone

my size who’s wearing a white shirt

and tell them I’ll trade them for a

free computer and they get to keep

my shirt.

JOANNA:

Does it have to be a white shirt,

is blue okay?

STEVE:

No, the Mac is beige, I’m beige,

the disk is blue and the shirt has

to be white. Andy?

STEVE looks at ANDY and mimes rolling the cartridge of a

revolver and sticking it to his own head along with sound

effects. ANDY and his team take off as STEVE heads back into-

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LISA:

I tried to get it to say hello but

it’s shy.

STEVE didn’t even notice she was there. He takes a breath and

smiles...

STEVE:

Yeah.

CHRISANN points to the Mac that’s sitting on a table-

CHRISANN:

So that’s it?

STEVE:

That’s it.

CHRISANN:

(pause)

I don’t get it.

STEVE:

I know.

CHRISANN:

What are people going to do with

it?

STEVE:

(for Chrisann’s benefit)

Lisa, how old are you now?

CHRISANN:

You know how old (she is).

STEVE:

(over)

How old are you, Lisa?

LISA:

Five.

STEVE:

Come sit here for a minute. You

know what this is?

LISA sits at the table in front of the Mac-

LISA:

It’s a computer.

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STEVE:

It’s a computer. Can I borrow your

hand for a second?

STEVE puts his hand on top of LISA’s and demonstrates the

mouse.

STEVE (CONT’D)

Point that arrow...and click. You

don’t have to but if you want you

can play with it. Nothing you can

do will break it so just do

whatever you want with it.

CHRISANN:

What are you doing?

While STEVE and CHRISANN continue, LISA becomes engaged with

the computer. She can hear her parents of course, but the

computer and what she’s doing with it become a welcome

distraction.

STEVE:

I’m paying you exactly what the

court ordered me to pay you.

CHRISANN:

$385 a month.

STEVE:

I’m not the one who decided on that

amount.

CHRISANN:

And I’m asking you how you feel--if

you feel alright, if it feels

alright to you--that your daughter

and her mother-

STEVE:

She’s not-

CHRISANN:

--your daughter, who’s sitting

right there--and her mother are on

welfare while you’re worth 441

million dollars for making that?

STEVE:

(pause)

I’m proud to say that Apple donates

free computers to underfunded

schools and we’ll be doing more of-

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CHRISANN:

What?

STEVE:

Apple donates millions of dollars

worth of computers to schools.

CHRISANN:

What does that (have to do with--)

STEVE:

(over)

Imagine an underprivileged kid who

has their favorite teacher with

them 24 hours. We’re minutes away

from being able to do that.

CHRISANN:

In your head was that an answer to

my question?

STEVE:

Tell me the question again.

CHRISANN:

I wasn’t the one who sued you for

child support, San Mateo County

sued you.

STEVE:

No let me explain what happened,

‘cause I have plenty of time right

now.

There’s a knock on the door and ANDREA opens it-

ANDREA:

Excuse me, you have a visitor.

STEVE (WOZ) WOZNIAK sticks his head in the door. WOZ is

amiable. He’s not looking for trouble and while he’s an

undisputed genius, he doesn’t have Steve’s anger or Steve’s

polish.

WOZ:

I just wanted to say good luck. Hey

Chrisann.

CHRISANN:

Hello.

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STEVE:

(to CHRISANN)

Hang on.

STEVE goes out into-8

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WOZ:

I just wanted to say good luck.

STEVE:

Thanks--you too.

WOZ:

Big morning.

Yeah.

STEVE:

WOZ:

You should see the crowd outside.

It’s like...the crowd is like, you

know...

STEVE waits patiently until he can’t anymore-STEVE

(pause)

I can’t really wait for you to comeup with the metaphor, man.

WOZ:

Yeah so listen, I wanted to ask youa favor.

Yeah.

STEVE:

WOZ:

Can you acknowledge the Apple IIteam in your remarks?

STEVE:

(pause)

I can not.

WOZ:

Just an acknowledgement, have themstand up.

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STEVE:

We’re launching the Mac.

WOZ:

It’d be a morale booster. Just a

mention so they can get a round ofapplause.

Woz-STEVE

WOZ:

Just a mention.

STEVE:

Can we stick a pin in this for aminute-WOZ

Sure, yeah.

Thanks.

STEVE:

WOZ:

I’m just talking about an

acknowledgement for the team.

STEVE:

I’ve got Chrisann in there, I’ll

see you in just a second.

Sure.

WOZ:

STEVE goes back into-9

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STEVE:

(to CHRISANN)

I didn’t take the DNA test

voluntarily, I took it because theboard was worried you were going to

sue me.

CHRISANN:

What are you talking about?

STEVE:

The board. Was worried you weregoing to sue me before the IPO.

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