Steve Jobs (2015)

Jeff Daniels: John Sculley

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• John Sculley : You're gonna end me, aren't you?

  Steve Jobs : You're being ridiculous. I'm gonna sit center court and watch you do it yourself.

• John Sculley : Why do people like you who were adopted feel like they were rejected instead of selected?

• Steve Jobs : The most efficient animal on the planet is the condor. The most inefficient animals on the planet are humans. 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. And what if, instead of it being in the right hands, it was in everyone's hands? Everyone in the world?

  John Sculley : We'd be talking about the most tectonic shift in the status quo since...

  Steve Jobs : ...ever.

• John Sculley : I can't put it more simply than this: We need to put our resources into updating the Apple II.

  Steve Jobs : By taking resources from the Mac.

  John Sculley : It's failing. That's a fact.

  Steve Jobs : It's overpriced.

  John Sculley : There is no evidence...

  Steve Jobs : I'm the evidence! I'm the world's leading expert on the Mac, John! What's your resume?

  John Sculley : 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!

  Steve 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 : Alright, well... this guy's outta 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. I'd like the secretary to call for a vote.

  Steve Jobs : I fucking dare you.

• John Sculley : Just relax.

  Steve Jobs : Why?

  John Sculley : I don't know. No one's ever asked me that question.

• Steve Jobs : What the hell cam a one-month-old do that's so bad his parents give him back?

  John Sculley : Nothing. There's nothing a one-month-old can do.

• Steve Jobs : It was the stylus, John.

  John Sculley : What?

  Steve 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.

  [Holds up hand, smiles] 

  Steve Jobs : The things we could've done together.

  [Walks out of the room] 

  John Sculley : [as the door closes]  God, the things we could've done.

• John Sculley : Don't play stupid, you can't pull it off.