Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
Actors:
Stephen Bridgewater (miscellaneous crew),
Jack E. Herman (miscellaneous crew),
Maxine Bergen (miscellaneous crew),
Nick Lombardo (producer),
Lynne Marie Stewart (actress),
Richard Halsey (editor),
Gailard Sartain (actor),
Jeffrey Nordling (actor),
Michael Chieffo (actor),
John DiMaggio (actor),
Brian Gattas (actor),
Noah Wyle (actor),
Anthony Michael Hall (actor),
Diane Robin (actress),
Bodhi Elfman (actor),
Plot: This is a semi-humorous biographical film about the men who made the world of technology what it is today, their struggles during college, the founding of their companies, and the ingenious actions they took to build up the global corporate empires of Apple Computer Corporation and Microsoft Inc.
Keywords: 1970s, 1980s, acid-trip, amnesia, anterograde-amnesia, apple-computer, apple-inc, apple-macintosh-computer, arrogance, bad-trip
Genres:
Biography,
Drama,
Taglines: Good artists copy... Great artists steal.
Quotes:
Steve Jobs: Those guys think they're revolutionaries. They're not revolutionaries, we are.::Steve Wozniak: We are?
Businessman: Steve - it is Steve, right? You say this gadget of yours is for ordinary people. What on earth would ordinary people want with computers?
Ballmer: Bill, I don't know if it's the clothes on the floor or you, but something in here definitely needs to be hosed down.
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.
Bill Gates: There may be a few... similarities.::Steve Jobs: Similarities? Similarities? Try theft.
IBM Executive: The profits are in the computers themselves, not this software stuff.
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?
Steve Jobs: Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Steve Jobs: We're better than you are! We have better stuff.::Bill Gates: You don't get it, Steve. That doesn't matter!
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.