Joanna Hoffman quotes from Steve Jobs (2015)

Joanna Hoffman

I'm begging you to manage expectations.

Steve Jobs

Have I ever let you down?

Joanna Hoffman

Every single goddamn time.

Steve Jobs

Then I'm due.

Steve Jobs

Joanna's gonna call my name in a second.

Joanna Hoffman

Steve?

Steve Jobs

That was unrehearsed.

Steve Jobs

Tell me what's wrong with you this morning.

Joanna Hoffman

What's been wrong with me for 19 years. I have been a witness, and I tell you I've been complicit. I love you, Steve. You know how much. I love that you don't care how much money a person makes; you care what they make. But what you make isn't supposed to be the best part of you. When you're a father... that's what's supposed to be the best part of you, and it's caused me two decades of agony. Steve... that it is for you... the worst. It's a little thing... it's a very small thing. Fix it. Fix it now or you can contact me at my new job working anywhere I want.

Steve Wozniak

This whole place was built by the Apple II, you were built by the Apple II!

Steve Jobs

As a matter of fact, I was destroyed by the Apple II and its open systems so that hackers and hobbyists could build ham radios! Or something! And then it nearly destroyed Apple when you spent all your money on it and developed a grand total of no new products.

Steve Wozniak

The Newton...

Steve Jobs

The little box of garbage. You guys came up with the Newton, you, like, want people to know that. This is a product launch, not a luncheon. And the last thing I want to do is connect the iMac to the...

Steve Wozniak

...to the only successful product that this company has ever made. I'm sorry to be blunt, but that happens to be the truth. The Lisa was a failure, the Macintosh was a failure. I don't like talking like this, but I am tired of being Ringo when I know I was John.

Steve Jobs

Everybody loves Ringo.

Steve Wozniak

And I'm tired of being patronized by you!

Steve Jobs

You think John became John by winning a raffle, Woz? You think he tricked somebody or hit George Harrison over the head? He was John because he was John.

Steve Wozniak

He was John 'cause he wrote 'Ticket to Ride', and I wrote the Apple II.

Everybody! Look, I want to clear the auditorium...

Steve Jobs

Nobody moves! [to Woz] You made a beautiful board which, by the way, you were willing to give out for free, so don't tell me how you built Apple. If it weren't for me, you'd be the easiest 'A' at Homestead High School.

Steve Wozniak

These people live and die by your praise, so here's your chance: acknowledge that something good happened that you weren't in the room for!

Steve Jobs

No.

Steve Wozniak

Steve... do it! It's right, it's... it's right.

Steve Jobs

Sorry, but no.

Steve Wozniak

Then let me put it another way. I don't think there's a man who's done more to advance the democratization that comes with personal computing than I have, but you've never had any respect for me. Now why is that?

Steve Jobs

I'd at least consider the possibility that it's because you've never had any for me.

Joanna Hoffman

What the hell is going on here?

Steve Wozniak

Nothing. Thank you for your time.