Re:Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
by piyush_soni on Monday January 20, 2014 @08:57PM
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And this as well:
"I begged Steve that we donate the first Apple I to a woman who took computers into elementary schools but he made my buy it and donate it myself."
Re:Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
by latj on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @07:18PM
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Unfortunately business pushes these kinds of people out. At the top of the ladder are those with high measures of psychopathy and those who inherited the keys to the throne. All the good guys find something else to do to pass their days.
Re:Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
by nate_meurer on Monday January 20, 2014 @12:54PM
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"And $10M was a lot in that time."
I love this. Classic Steve Wozniak humor.
Re:Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
by spinlock on Monday January 20, 2014 @09:06PM
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Waz was the 1% before it was cool.
Re:Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
by hnriot on Monday January 20, 2014 @11:11PM
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before it wasn't cool.
Re:Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
by dchichkov on Monday January 20, 2014 @08:13PM
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If only we could celebrate that kind of integrity on the par with brilliant salesmanship. Think a world without Jobs, or a world without Woz, which one is a sadder place?
Re:Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
by ne0codex on Monday January 20, 2014 @09:54PM
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The world needed both.
Re:Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
by dchichkov on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @01:39AM
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That is not the answer to the question that I had asked. The question is, if you have to choose, which world would be the sadder place? World without Jobs or world without Woz?
The reason to ask that question is because it gives a clue, which person and which principles we ought to celebrate more.
Re:Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
by mattlutze on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @04:09AM
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Maybe it was the wrong question to ask.
Why does either need to be celebrated more? Vision and perseverance, determination and resolve, integrity and magnanimity are all culturally celebrated virtues.
To honor one man while denying the other is to ignore part of what made that endeavor the success it was.
Re:Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
by sammathews on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @05:40PM
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Well said.
Re:Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
by dchichkov on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @10:55PM
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I don't know. I've seen real damage done by somebody trying to imitate mercurial and ruthless aspects of Jobs. And let me remind you that Jobs was not afraid of telling direct lies to his partners "... Jobs told him that Atari gave them only $700 (instead of the offered $5,000), and that Wozniak's ...". I really really don't know....
Re:Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
by mattlutze on Monday January 27, 2014 @04:30AM
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^^ This is exactly why we at least need to talk about both men when trying to emulate the Apple phenomenon. Probably a few others from the last decade as well. Apple didn't happen because of Jobs (full stop).
Jobs was but one part, and emulating only him will leave almost anyone miserable, despised, lonely and broke.
Re:Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
by talmand on Monday January 20, 2014 @12:12PM
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What I want to know is when do we get a movie about Woz?
Re:Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
by pjbrunet on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @12:20AM
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Not a movie but there's more about Woz in here than anyone else...
Re:Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
by dyscrete on Monday January 20, 2014 @02:31PM
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Can we all demand a Woz movie?
Re:Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
by csmattryder on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @12:15AM
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I've never backed anything on Kickstarter yet, nothing's caught my eye, but an iWoz film would be a great way to get into the whole crowdfunding thing.
He's a great engineer, but unfortunately for big-budget film-makers, isn't a name that'll draw people into the box office.
Re:Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
by justplay on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @01:38AM
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Woz deserves recognition, lets do it guy.
Re:Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
by acjohnson55 on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @09:53PM
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If Pay It Forward can make it big, so could iWoz. I mean, his life has had all sorts of drama, and yet it's a really heartwarming story. If done right, it could be a truly great film of tech and humanity.
Re:Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
by moocowduckquack on Monday January 20, 2014 @08:10PM
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Can it also have space dinosaurs in it. Like, real space dinosaurs. From space.
Re:Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
by midas007 on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @06:59AM
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Picket outside Apple stores until there's a movie?
Re:Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
by mwal on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @02:19AM
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Well, there's a more accurate movie about Jobs being planned, for which Woz is a consultant: http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/01/13/briefly-aaron-sork...
Screenwriter is Aaron Sorkin - he also wrote the screenplay for The Social Network.
Re:Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
by easy_rider on Monday January 20, 2014 @04:10PM
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They did show that in "Pirates of Silicon Valley" !
Re:Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
by nkassis on Monday January 20, 2014 @09:53PM
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They alluded to it in one scene I believe, while Jobs in the movie is taking to his ex girlfriend on the phone at a banquet, Woz talks tell Jobs that they should give stocks to the early guys.
Re:Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
by Swannie on Monday January 20, 2014 @10:03PM
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And there is the scene where Woz tells Jobs that he'd given them some of his own stocks (or similar). I was watching "Jobs", and was shocked that it was not in there. Very poor portrayal. Pirates was much more balanced.
Nothing more need be said, really. This is the very definition of character and integrity.