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  • Being an Aaron Sorkin script, Steve Jobs has liberal amounts of snark, but this one is especially impressive, coming as it does from normally mild-mannered and diffident Andy Hertzfeld:
    Andy Hertzfeld: We're not a pit crew at Daytona. This can't be fixed in seconds.
    Steve Jobs: You didn't have seconds, you had three weeks. The universe was created in a third of that time.
    Andy Hertzfeld: Well, someday you'll have to tell us how you did it.
  • A programmer looks at 39 pictures of sharks before Steve Jobs decides that the 39th is the right one for the presentation. The programmer asked a reporter nearby if he can tell the difference between this shark and the other 38 sharks he looked at.
  • A "just for old times' sake" moment before the 1984 Macintosh launch:
    Steve Jobs: Say it for me.
    Woz: Computers aren't...
    Steve Jobs: Fuck you.
    Woz: All right.
  • The delivery of this exchange:
    Steve Jobs: Woz?
    Woz: What?
    Steve Jobs: What the fuck is on your wrist?note 
  • The follow up to the watch where Woz starts to excitedly explain what the watch is and how it works, only for Steve to point out the impracticality of the device namely that it kind of looks like Woz is arming a bomb when he needs to change the time.
  • This exchange between Steve and Andy Cunningham where Steve is trying to get Andy to convince the Fire Marshall to allow all the lights including the Exit signs to be turned off to make the Mac Program work.
    Steve: Did you tell him we’re trying to change the world?
    Steve: If a fire causes a stampede to the unmarked exits, it will have been well worth it for those who survive. For those who don't, less so, but still pretty good.

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