Pirates of Silicon Valley Page #2

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- Saw it on the bulletin board there.

- What kind of job?

I don't know. It seems

sort of like show business.

Dressing up as Alice in Wonderland

and stuff for a bunch of kids?

But, you know, Steve wasn't

exactly cut out for that stuff.

Maybe in a past life...

...I was a poet or an artist.

You know. maybe you talk about

past lives and all that stuff...

...because. well.

you don't know who you are.

What the hell are you talking about?

I don't know who I am?

Well. you don't.

I mean. you told me--

I don't wanna talk about it

with you or anyone else.

I'm just trying to help.

It wasn't like Steve and I

lost touch with each other...

...but he was definitely

in places I wasn't...

...like some ashram in India...

...and communes up in Oregon

where they picked apples all day.

It was pretty much

of a journey for Steve.

The kind that's as much

on the inside as on the outside.

I mean. he definitely must

have been to weird places.

See the new Playmate?

Miss October?

Hey. man. Miss August is way better.

B*obs out to here.

Honest to God. Ballmer.

You have no culture.

Yeah. right.

Like you go around reading Plato.

You're the only guy I know...

...who could make furniture

out of Playboys. for God sakes.

Look. you got enough

to make a chair.

You don't have to worry

about them moving...

-...because they're stuck together.

- Get out.

- They're all stuck together.

- Sometimes back then---

...I could've throttled Bill Gates.

The guy could turn any human situation

into a poker game.

Forget about classes. Poker.

The fact that the world might

end tonight? No problem. poker.

Or we're finally deciphering

the meaning of life.

More poker.

And winning. The guy'd have

a hairball if he'd lost...

...which wasn't often,

let me tell you.

- Full house.

- Oh. man.

Hey. Bill.

Our rooms were like a casino.

Actually, a messy casino.

And Bill slept wherever he fell down.

Bill. the revolution's starting

without us.

Bill and Paul Allen had known

each other since they were kids.

If the word "passion"

entered into their lives...

...it was for one thing: computers.

Especially this one made by some guy

in Albuquerque of all places.

What is this. porn for engineers?

Oh, jeez, the Altair.

Am I missing something?

I mean. Miss October. I can understand.

but what is this?

This is better than Miss October.

This is a computer.

- Oh. God.

- The article says...

...that they need someone

to figure out a language for it.

Right now

it just sits there and blinks.

Whoever talks to this Ed Roberts

has gotta go to Albuquerque to see him.

You should go because you look

better for that stuff than I do.

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