Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999 TV Movie)

Noah Wyle: Steve Jobs

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Quotes 

• Steve Jobs : We're better than you are! We have better stuff.

  Bill Gates : You don't get it, Steve. That doesn't matter!

• Steve Jobs : What is this? This is like doing business with a praying mantis. You get seduced, and then eaten alive afterwards?

  Bill Gates : Get real, would ya? You and I are both like guys who had this rich neighbor - Xerox - who left the door open all the time. And you go sneakin' in to steal a TV set. Only when you get there, you realize that I got there first. I got the loot, Steve! And you're yellin'? "That's not fair. I wanted to try to steal it first." You're too late.

• Steve Jobs : Maybe fun is just fragments of existence with better packaging.

• Steve Jobs : Good artists copy, great artists steal.

• [first lines] 

  Steve Jobs : I don't want you to think of this as just a film - some process of converting electrons and magnetic impulses into shapes and figures and sounds. No. Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We're creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or poet. That's how you have to think of this. We're rewriting the history of human thought with what we're doing.

  Ridley Scott : Right. Well, Steven, at the moment I'm a touch more worried about getting light on the actress. Do you know what I mean?

• Bill Gates : There may be a few... similarities.

  Steve Jobs : Similarities? Similarities? Try theft.

• Mike Markkula : Steve Wozniak's employee number one, you're number two.

  Steve Jobs : Wait a minute. I'm employee number one. Woz?

  Steve Wozniak : Doesn't matter to me.

  Steve Jobs : I'm employee number one around here.

  Mike Markkula : I'm not saying anything. I wasn't implying anything.

  Steve Jobs : All right, then I'll be zero. Woz, you can be number one. I'll be zero. Okay?

• John Sculley : Steve, I'm worried. About what's happening. All the "them versus us" stuff. Macintosh versus Apple II.

  Steve Jobs : You don't understand, John. People need a cause.

• Steve Jobs : Those guys think they're revolutionaries. They're not revolutionaries, we are.

  Steve Wozniak : We are?

• Arlene : Steve, why do you care what I call the baby?

  Steve Jobs : Because I don't want the baby named Rainbow! Or Orisha, or Ravi Shankar, or any other name like that.

• Steve Jobs : What's he talking about, the Altair? I never had a problem with the Altair - 'til I tried to use it!

• Steve Jobs : Maybe in a past life I was a poet - or an artist.

• Bill Gates : I don't understand - how does the hardware handle the mouse/cursor display?

  Gilmore : No, it's all right here in the software...

  Steve Jobs : Enough!

  [angrily mashes button, closing the Macintosh display] 

  Gilmore : Sorry, Steve.

  Steve Jobs : There's no use torturing our guests with what they can't have.

• Steve Jobs : You are putting poison into your body.

  Steve Wozniak : That's french fries, man. You know, all-American food?

  Steve Jobs : That's what I'm talking about.

  Steve Wozniak : Come on, I can't eat like you do. Eatin' fruit all the time? That's weird.

  Steve Jobs : It's not weird. It's pure.

• Steve Wozniak : Where's your beard?

  Steve Jobs : In the bathroom sink. I shaved it off.

  Steve Wozniak : Well, how come?

  Steve Jobs : 'Cause banks don't like beards.

• Steve Jobs : Are you a virgin?

  Mike Markkula : Steve, come on.

• Steve Jobs : How old were you when you first got laid?

  Job Applicant : I don't - I don't...

  Mike Markkula : Steve, will you leave him alone?

• Steve Jobs : [seeing first version of Microsoft Windows]  I made a mistake. I trusted. I believed. "Family?" Maybe a Mafia family. You turn your back, and you get whacked.

• Steve Jobs : What, like I have to have a moustache?

  Steve Wozniak : A suit! You actually bought a suit!

• Steve Jobs : You're stealing from us!

• Steve Jobs : Are you sure this thing is even gonna work?

  Steve Wozniak : If it doesn't catch fire.

  Steve Jobs : Don't even joke.

• [last lines] 

  Bill Gates : It's going to be very interesting, you know... you and me, working together?

  Steve Jobs : Yeah. Yeah, it sure is.

• Steve Wozniak : [about their first prototype]  They hated it.

  Steve Jobs : Woo hoo!

  [hugging him, dancing about]