- Hi.
You didn't tell me they built
an Apple store next door.
- Yeah, there's practically
one on every corner.
Don't tell me that it
actually threw you.
I thought that, that
was just your schtick.
- It's not schtick.
- Okay, well, if you could just
smile, because you're so pretty.
- No, I really don't want to
do this right now.
- Please, please, please,
please, please.
- No, no, I just need to focus.
Thank you.
- Smile.
Oh my God! No, so cute-
- Hi everybody.
Uh...
Good evening.
My name is Claudia Lerner.
Um...
Silicon Valley is exciting,
but it can also be
pretty suffocating.
It hasn't always been that way.
Some places are
more than a place.
They can hold power.
They can change you.
You're probably asking yourself,
who is this young female
author standing at the podium?
And I wish I asked myself that
same question a lot sooner.
So without further ado,
this is the Book of Jobs.
It was 1998.
Here in my own private paradise,
I felt completely safe.
My parents had
planted us smack dab
in the center of Silicon Valley.
My dad preached the
possibility of this place.
It was my Garden of Eden.
My oldest memories
are of these giants.
I remember searching
for where the trees
ended and the sky began.
California became my religion,
and there was a messiah here.
- All right.
- My little
hands grabbed hold
of the apple and bit down.
Hard.
- People were
running
and someone was shouting,
something hit the building,
something hit the building.
- Well,
we saw just moments ago,
we saw in our studio here,
a plane,
crashed into the south tower
of the World Trade Center,
that was the second plane.
So, two planes have
now crashed, uh,
each into one of the
World Trade Center towers.
What we can only
surmise at this point...
- Thank you for showing
me what a loving home
I have to return to after
a 14-hour day at work.
- I don't have
any other time
to talk to you
about these things.
You're never here and when
you are it's no different from
when you're not.
- What do you
want me to say?
I work my f*cking
a*s off for our family.
- Bullshit! This isn't for
us, it's your ego, you never
outgrew that sh*t.
- We had an agreement,
now you're unhappy with it.
- We had a partnership.
It's not working,
this isn't working.
That's why I think we
need to be realistic
and actually talk about it.
- This is not talking.
- I just... I'm
trying to tell you
how it feels on our end.
This isn't Boo's door.
Boo? What's Boo?
- That's what I decided to
call her, is there a problem?
- Sully, you're not
supposed to name it.
Once you name it, you start
getting attached to it.
Now put that thing back where
it came from, or so help me!
Oh, hey!
We're rehearsing a scene
for the upcoming company
play called, uh,
Put That Thing Back Where
it Came From or So Help Me.
It's a musical.
Put that thing back where
it came from, or so help me.
- It was sensational,
I can't even describe it.
- Listen, Sweetie.
- Who follows up a run like
that with something even better?
I mean, he does Toy Story,
A Bug's life,
Toy Story 2 , and now this.
- Buddy, we need to
discuss something.
- And that ending, even the
adults teared up, honest to God.
- This is really important.
- I can't believe
I've been twice now and you
still haven't seen this.
How about we go next Friday?
I say we beat the rush-
- We're getting a divorce.
- Nice one.
- What was I supposed to do?
Honey, I know this
is gonna be difficult
so if you want to talk
about anything,
we can discuss anything.
Get down, get down!
- Earthquakes were
an inevitability
of living on the
San Andreas fault.
I just didn't expect
one in my own home.
I found comfort in the
fact that Jobs was born
into a broken family.
- Have a great first day.
- Thanks, Mom.
- Here, let me help.
- Thanks.
First day of middle school and
my backpack breaks, go figure.
- Well, you shoved enough books
in here to build a library.
How many classes are you taking?
- Eight.
- Hey, look! We both have
art elective after lunch.
- Awesome! You know,
Steve Jobs is an artist.
That's how he came up with such
beautiful designs for Apple,
and that's why I
signed up for art.
Are you any good at drawing?
If you are, maybe you could
design computers one day, too.
I just get excited about things.
- I'm Lucy.
- Claudia.
- Let's go.
- How does someone
become your best friend?
I was careful.
She was carefree.
But Lucy always
told me the truth.
- Sunflower G4?
Nice.
- You're kind of
weird about computers.
- I'll be just like him.
- Who?
- I'm going to be Steve
Jobs, but a girl, of course.
- You know, you're
completely nuts.
- Don't you have an iPod?
Look.
You just connect it
to your computer,
and can have all the songs
you want right in your hand.
- Cool.
- Who's that?
- It's my dad.
- Don't be sad.
It will get better.
- How can you say that?
- Because it has to.
Oh, what do you want
to listen to next?
- I don't really want to
listen to music anymore.
- Just try to think positive,
visualize what you want.
- What if that doesn't work?
- We should make a pact.
We promise to stay best
friends no matter what
for our whole lives.
- You're kind of insane.
- We'll start by
sticking together through
high school, then we'll
go to the same college.
- Where do you want to go?
- Stanford, obviously.
I'll study computers
like Steve Jobs,
and you can...
- Be a painter,
or a veterinarian.
Maybe an archaeologist.
- You like that color,
huh?
- It's called Macintosh.
Like the computer and the logo.
- Yeah, I get it.
Hey, hey, wait, wait, can I,
can I talk to you for a second?
There's something I
wanted to tell you.
You know how I've been going
to the doctor a lot recently?
- Yes.
- Well, they've been trying
to figure some things out.
And, it turns out that...
I have cancer.
But, I am optimistic.
They are catching it very early.
- On the outside,
I was silent.
Inside, every corner of my brain
was firing on a loop siren.
She will not die.
She will not die.
She will not die.
- And the doctors
have a whole plan.
I'm starting
treatment next week.
- At Stanford?
- Yeah.
- How lucky are we?
- W-what do you mean?
- To have revolutionary
research being done right
here in our own backyard.
Those doctors will have
everything you need.
- Yeah, Stanford
Hospital is wonderful.
- It's all because of Jobs.
They just blow all the
other hospitals
right out of the water.
He's made them totally
raise their game.
- Did you join some kind
of cult or something?
- People must travel from
all over to get treated here.
- You know Stanford's been
around a lot longer
than Steve Jobs?
- This is the gold
standard, the Emerald City.
If you've got cancer,
Stanford's the place to be.
- Yes.
- You're going to get the best
treatment in the world
because Steve Jobs represents
the best in the world
and wouldn't live
anywhere else.
You're going to beat this.
- Well, that is the plan.
And I am gonna fight so hard.
But just in case this
treatment doesn't work out,
you know, there's trials
all over the country.
- You've got this, Mom.
Huh!
Huh!
Booyah!
- Jobs was
infamous
for his reality
distortion field,
a phenomenon in which he
would convince himself
and those around him to
believe almost anything.
Utilizing a perfect c*ck
of charisma, hyperbole,
and persistence.
He thought he could make
the impossible possible,
I believed I could do the same.
- Oh, how
beautiful is this?
- Mom's getting chemo today.
- Yeah.
And, I feel...
I feel terrible about that, but
we are here.
In our favorite restaurant,
having just driven the
most beautiful road
in the world and...
Hey,
remember how much you like
the creme brulee here?
- I do remember.
I remember because
we've been here
a hundred times as a family.
Mom has cancer and we're here
getting caramelized custard.
Why don't we hop in the car
and you can drive us home?
You can go back to being
a good husband and father,
and we can put this
whole thing behind us.
- That is enough.
- Enough with the
midlife crisis, Dad.
- Okay.
- You're better than that.
- This is beyond inappropriate,
Daniella is sitting right here.
- You're so right,
I'm sorry.
Daniella, let me ask you.
Do you think my dad should be
dating someone 10 years younger?
Or go back to his sick wife who
needs him and his only daughter?
- Claudia, leave
her out of this.
- Look, Daniella, you
seem like a nice lady.
I love your hair.
Why don't you tell
us your address,
and we can drop you
off on our way home?
- I doubt she wants you
knowing where she lives now.
- Claudia, I don't think
I deserve any of this.
- You are making her feel awful.
- So quick to defend her.
- Give us a break.
- What will it take? Huh?
I'll get better grades?
I'll stop being so annoying.
- Claudia, contrary
to what you think,
it isn't about you all the time.
I'm not gonna sit here listening
to this petulant sh*t all day.
I am the parent,
you are the child.
This conversation is over.
- Do you want to talk about it?
Before my dad's stroke, my
mom found out he was cheating.
They were gonna get a divorce.
Now she's stuck
taking care of him.
We can't put our faith in men.
Otherwise, we will
end up like our moms.
- I can think of some
great male role models,
like Steve Jobs, for instance.
- Jobs had a kid with
his ex-girlfriend
who he rejected for
nearly a decade.
- If you think you're
helping, you're not.
- Look,
I don't exactly know what went
down with your parents,
and I don't have to.
I'm just saying, I know what
it feels like to be betrayed.
- Has it ever dawned on
you that I'm not like you?
That I'm not like
other girls at all?
I'm a rebel, a misfit,
I see things differently.
You can vilify me-
- Oh, my God.
If you keep quoting a
think different commercial,
I'm actually gonna throw up.
- I have to go to the bathroom.
No.
No.
No.
This isn't happening.
- What are you doing in there?
What's that?
- Nothing.
- Why'd you just throw
your underwear away?
- I had an accident.
- You're not 4 years old.
- Just leave it alone.
- What the hell is going on?
- I just...
I just got my period, I think.
- Impressive, it'll be fine.
First of all, throwing
your underwear away
won't make it go away.
It'll just make it worse.
Look, we'll just get you a pad.
- There's no pads?
Do you have any?
- Of course not, you know
I haven't gotten mine yet.
- What am I going to do?
I can feel it down there now,
I can't go back outside.
- Well, we either ask your
dad's girlfriend for help or...
- But, I haven't gotten
to that chapter in the
American Girl Body Book yet.
- Claudia, talk to me.
What's going on in there?
- Won't go in.
Luce, I don't think
I can do this.
There's a reason girls don't
use tampons right away.
- You need to relax.
- Can you change the
angle or something?
- To what? This?
- Ouch!
- How about this?
- Lucy!
- Give me some help
on the direction here!
- Try changing it 15
degrees clockwise.
- I'm not a mathematician.
- I'm telling you, I think
there's something wrong.
Maybe my vag*na is messed up.
Maybe I have the one vag*na
that doesn't work right
and the tampons won't fit.
- And as I sat
there in despair, it hit me.
W-W-S-D.
- What would Steve do?
Innovation is saying no
to a thousand things.
- Are you quoting Steve Jobs
while you try and put
in a tampon?
- I'm just changing the
direction a little bit.
Maybe, if I...
Ah-ha! It's in!
- It's in?
- It's in! Ah!
- Some
obsessions fade
once high school comes along.
Mine just grew stronger.
- You have the animal cells, and
the plant cells, the plant cells
are more rigid, they have
a really thick cell wall.
And then the animal cells
have a really good membrane,
so they're more squishier,
and if you just remember that,
- Hey, Claudia, sorry.
Can you help me with that?
- There you go.
- Thank you.
And thank you, Lucy.
Thanks, Claudia.
So, a little birdie told
me that, Mr. Dotnick
brought in pie yesterday?
- Yeah, that was
because yesterday
was March 14th,
you know.
Pi, 3.14.
- Uh-huh, well, March
15th is now Donut Day
because I'm a big zero.
- Lame.
- Hi, Claudia.
- Hey, Quentin.
- Okay, my lovable zombies,
I have a very special
surprise for you.
We have a guest speaker
today, he should be here...
Oh, there he is right now.
Ladies and gentlemen,
this is Nelson,
and he's here to talk
to us about nutrition.
Okay, ooh, firm grip.
Whenever you're ready.
- My name,
is Nelson Ovadan.
I'm certified NCSF,
NASM, and NSCA.
And I'm here today to talk to
you about having a healthy diet.
This, was me just around your
age in my godforsaken excuse
for a body, weighing
in at over 400 pounds.
I was a few sausage pizzas away,
from ending up in a body bag.
Or worse, being stuck
in a wheelchair.
Having lost my limbs to
type 2 diabetic shock.
- Are you're scared
straight, yet?
- Being forced upon a caretaker,
like a cow at the farm.
- Meera?
Meera, are you okay?
- I freaked out.
I just had to get out of there.
- Take it easy.
Is this something that's
been going on for a while?
- No.
Well...
I guess.
Sort of.
It's mostly nothing,
seeing as I've skipped
lunch every day this week.
I mean, I am
completely overwhelmed.
They, they keep telling
us how to be, but
but every version is different,
and you have to make it seem
like you're not even
trying, you know?
I...
finally achieve a thigh gap.
Then, our soccer coach tells
me the team is depending on me,
so I get strong again, but
then I'm overflowing my
skinny jeans, it's
like I can't keep up.
And...
and I mean, if I get anything
less than an A minus,
I won't get into a great
college and then I won't get a
great job to set me up for my
great career and then there's
my parents, they moved here from
India, you know, and there's
a certain way I'm
supposed to be.
I've gotta make them
proud their way but,
but it's not the same
as this way, and I just
feel like I'm getting whiplash,
and, and the worst part about
it all is that I'm
f*cking starving.
- You've got a lot going on.
I mean, we all do.
I'm here for you.
Whatever you need.
- Ah, you're so...
perfect, all the time.
How are your feet
still on the ground?
- I just ask what he would do.
- Jesus?
- My hero, Steve Jobs.
- Oh.
Yeah, I've heard that about you.
- What used to feel
like a far-off destiny was now
just around the corner.
It was time to be
proactive about my future.
Steve Jobs didn't
go to Stanford,
but it embodied
everything he stood for.
sh**t.
Come on, Claudia.
Visualize.
And innovate.
Ugh!
- What did that
thing ever do to you?
What are you working on?
- My coding homework.
- Oh.
You're exhausted.
Why are you working yourself
to death over this class?
- It's a special
upperclassmen elective.
- You're only in ninth grade,
why don't you just drop it?
- I'm getting a leg
up for Stanford.
Not all incoming college
freshmen have the chance
to take computer
science in high school.
- Well, what if you switched
to advanced literature
or creative writing?
- It's just a few late nights.
- Well, don't go crazy
for something that
makes you so unhappy.
Life is short.
- Mom, I don't have
time to get into a whole
cancer talk right now, okay?
I have too much to do.
- Your hero wasn't an
engineer, you know.
He was the creative.
- I can handle it.
- Has your school talked to
you guys at all about that
teenager that k*lled
themselves by the train tracks?
- It wasn't an Oaks student.
- No, but they went to a
high school down the street.
These things can be contagious.
I just want to make sure Oaks
is talking to you and not
brushing it under the rug.
- Mom.
I'm sorry, but I'm
really busy right now.
- Well, do you want me to look?
I pick up things pretty easily.
- I need to learn how
to do this on my own.
- Hmm.
I used to be a pretty good
f*cking engineer, you know.
Before I married your
dad and had a kid,
but, everyone seems to
have forgotten about that.
- Her first memory
was watching the Apollo 17
launch on TV when
she was 4 years old.
Like the fire
beneath the rocket,
it ignited something in her.
It was in an
environmental biology class
where she met my dad.
She went to college to
study aerospace engineering,
the sole female student
in her department.
She, was the trailblazer I
kept telling myself I was.
- Every single year, we go-
- Somewhere along
the way, she figured out that
the thing that she and my dad
bonded over when they were
young was what drove them apart.
- ...into Pebble Beach as a
group, and I did it one time.
- She came to
resent him for the dreams
she surrendered even though
she had done so willingly.
- We have the money,
doesn't mean that we should
burn it on toys.
- I'm not burning it,
it's not burning it.
These are not toys.
- I don't know what else to do.
- We used to be each other's
biggest heroes, we used
to be each other's
biggest cheerleaders.
- Yeah. I'm trying to tell you
that I'm hurt!
That's just what I wanted
to share with you.
- I have feelings too.
I am hurt too, you don't think
that I want to share things
with my partner?
- Yeah, I don't think...
- And he chose his
career over everything else.
- Just because I am
working long hours,
it doesn't mean I'm
cheating on you.
- I am not an idiot!
- You're paranoid.
- You're pathetic!
- If this is your way of
trying to get my attention,
it's ridiculous.
The only way you know how
to be close to someone,
is to yell at them.
- Then came
the cancer.
When she heard the
words, cancer free,
she believed she had won.
Mom and I had lived together,
just the two of us, for 8 years.
We'd grown dependent
on one another.
- Oh I see someone finally
decided to come home.
It's not like I wasn't waiting
for half an hour after school
and finally had to call
Lucy to give me a ride.
What's the point of a cell
phone if you never use it?
I mean, really,
I called you five times.
You know, these magic
little things in our pockets
have multiple methods
of communication.
A simple text wouldn't
have sufficed.
Mom?
- I'm sorry.
I'm sorry I left you at school.
I am just a human being.
I am trying to be strong.
- You are strong,
you're a badass.
- Stop it, Claudia!
I don't need you to
cheer me up right now.
I'm sorry.
It came back.
It came back.
But I just...
I just needed a
minute to myself.
- Mom.
- And I don't...
I don't want to
talk about it yet.
I don't want to be convinced,
I don't want to pretend to be
a superhero.
I don't...
- It was okay
that Mom was afraid.
I would be strong enough
for the both of us.
- Can I ask you something
about the itinerary?
- Yeah, what you got?
- Okay.
So, right here on day 2,
there's an hour that's missing,
and then again on days 4 and 5.
- That's not missing,
that's free time.
- Free time?
- Yeah, you can, you
can go shopping or,
I don't know, have some gelato.
If you really want to see the
city the way it's meant to
be seen though, you'll
take a bike ride.
- I have a few
ideas about what we
could schedule in there instead.
- Oh.
- In fact,
I have some other ideas for
days 1 and 3 in Rome as well
as day 6 in Genoa.
I don't know who
made this thing, but
there are some serious-
- I did.
- Sorry.
There are some
serious oversights.
It's not taking into account
temporary exhibitions
or efficient
transportation routes.
In fact, I did some mapping.
And if we switch these
two things here, we could
shave off half an hour of bus
time, which we can then tack
onto an architecture
tour in the afternoon.
- I'm sorry, I
stopped listening.
These buttons are
so hard to get in.
Look, Claudia, why
don't you just,
you know,
sit back and relax?
I planned this whole thing
so that you wouldn't have
to worry about it, you're kind
of hurting my feelings, so
if you could just take in the
sights, I'd be appreciative.
- But you didn't plan enough.
I can help you rework the
entire schedule if you want.
- That sounds terrible.
Look, Claudia, I love
this about you, okay?
You're super serious
about school,
you're structured with your
homework and your studies.
But this trip, the point of
this trip is spontaneity, okay,
creativity, I don't know,
some adventure, right?
The whole reason that we
planned this trip is so that we
could celebrate the fact
that you are only young once.
- I also only go on my high
school trip to Italy once.
I've got to make it count.
- Okay, just try to
have fun, all right?
- You sure you don't want this?
- No, and where did you
get so many post-its?
- Attention passengers
of Flight 8735,
we are now ready for boarding.
We'll begin with our pre-board.
- All right, I'm gonna round
up the troops.
Come on, guys, let's go.
- I bet they saw Alcatraz
and Fisherman's Wharf,
and now they're going to
tell their friends and family
how amazing California is.
It's ironic, isn't it?
They see a little piece of it
and think it's so fascinating
and we laugh at them, but
we're going to their city
to do the exact same thing.
See a few old churches and
say we've been to Florence.
- Florence has some of the
best museums in the world.
- I doubt that's where
local Italian teenagers go.
I wonder how different
their daily lives
really are from ours.
Maybe I'll go to
college in Italy.
Really live there instead
of being some dumb tourist.
- That'd never work, we couldn't
go to Italy for college.
- Maybe you couldn't,
I'm talking about myself.
- We can just do study abroad in
Italy while we're at Stanford.
- Stanford?
- Like we promised.
- Oh my God, I can't
believe you remember that.
We talked about that when
we were what, like, 11?
- Remember, I live by it.
- Claudia, I can't
go to Stanford.
- You better not be
screwing with me right now.
- Oh, you're serious,
aren't you?
- You think our future's a joke?
Hey, did we see
Venus of Urbino
before Michelangelo's
David today?
Not again.
- Come on, we're going out.
- I can't go out.
- You can't not go out,
it's the last night.
The others are waiting
in the lobby in 15.
- It's against the rules.
- The legal age to get
into bars here is like 16.
- It's against the
school rules, Luce.
- Look, if you didn't want to
experience nightlife in Italy,
you could have picked the
Galapagos Biodiversity Trip.
- I didn't travel 6,000
miles to get wasted and make
an a*s out of myself,
I could do that at home.
- Yeah, like you've ever
done that, like, even once.
- You know what, you can
squander your mornings here,
sleeping in and hiding your
hangover from the teachers,
I'm joining the 7 a.m.
walking tour tomorrow.
- Oh my God, Claudia,
another one?
You're as boring and repetitive
as your stupid
f*cking guidebooks.
- b*tch.
- Lucy was right.
I did need to go out,
but not to go clubbing.
To connect with the
genius of Florence.
To connect with Jobs.
- Claudia, what a
pleasant surprise.
Where you heading on this
beautiful evening in Firenze?
- To be honest,
I don't actually know.
- I think that's the first time
I've ever heard you say that.
- Me too.
Where'd you ride?
- Oh, I did a 10-mile loop
around the entire city.
- That's productive,
getting to see what you want
while getting some exercise.
- Yeah, I mean, k*lling
two birds and all that,
but that's, that's
not why I do it.
I just think the best way
to explore a new place,
is on two wheels, always been
that way, I don't know why.
It just quiets all
the noise, in here.
You should try it sometime.
- I really should go,
I don't want to bother you.
- You seem a little more
preoccupied than usual,
what's on your mind?
- It's nothing.
I shouldn't, it's... it's rude.
Too personal.
- I'm an open book.
- Well...
You're so smart.
And you're kind of quirky and
particular, you have all the
right ingredients,
like, I'm just confused.
- About?
- Why on earth would
you settle for teaching
high school as a career?
Oh, I'm sorry, I...
I can't believe I
said that.
- I'm sorry, I can't, I'm sorry.
- Ooh, ingredients, huh?
Well, I didn't settle.
I chose this, you know,
it might sound corny, and
you might not appreciate it
at this stage in your life but,
teaching is the most rewarding
thing that I could ever
think of doing.
- Really? I mean,
didn't you go to MIT?
- Yeah, I crushed MIT.
But is that supposed
to mean that I need
to get a Nobel Prize
in engineering?
- Yeah.
- Oh, I know
you're obsessed
with guys like Steve Jobs,
and I get it,
but everyone's definition
of success is different.
- You just seem
better than that.
- Whoa.
I'm not a saint, okay?
I am not a wizard,
even though that would
be super cool, could you
imagine me in, like,
matching robes head to toe?
I'm not special, I'm just like
every other privileged kid,
thrown on the hamster
wheel, you work hard,
and I made my first
million before I was 30.
- Well, that's what
I'm talking about.
- Well, I mean, I
thought it would give me
a sense of accomplishment,
you know?
Not because I wanted the
money to buy anything
specifically, but because, I
achieved the goal, I made it.
But, as soon as I
did, the needle moved.
I felt trapped.
- So what happened?
- Well, I realized that the
only time I was really happy
was when I was back in Boston
in college working as a TA.
So, I got back into teaching,
and I haven't looked back since.
- Well, I know what I want.
I always have, I want
to be Steve Jobs.
- Yeah, which is impossible.
We can agree on that,
I mean, it's not because
you're not smart
enough or driven.
- Yeah, yeah, we already
have one Steve Jobs.
We don't need another,
I mean, bullshit.
It's not like we got Einstein
and said, you know what,
we're good, we'll stop there.
- I'm not saying that you
can't be the next big thing,
because, God knows you
are capable, but the glory
shouldn't be the goal, because
if it is, you will just keep
reaching and reaching.
- I just want to learn and
then dominate the way he did.
- Hmm.
It's like I'm talking
to a mirror, honestly.
Um, you will soon discover that
life is not a means to an end.
It's... It's this.
It's just being, you know?
And for you, yeah, it sucks.
You gotta be an adolescent,
smell funny and all the boys
are stupid and you don't
know what you're doing,
but, be open.
The magic is
integrating all of it,
not shutting the
door on any of it.
- Okay, Dumbledore.
- Thank you?
- I'm just... I'm sick of people
just telling me that I'm wrong.
I know who I am, I always have.
And, look Steve Jobs had to
swim against the tide too.
- Yeah, he did.
But he did it his way.
I mean, we can agree that
he made a lot of mistakes,
but man, he had fun doing it,
and he created a lot of cool
sh*t along the way
for one reason.
Steve Jobs is the
only Steve Jobs.
He is an original.
I'm hungry.
Care to join me for a bite?
- I've got more studying to do.
Good night, Mr. Shine.
Lucy?
Luce, you okay?
Oh, God.
How can you think
partying's worth this?
- What are you doing?
- Getting ready for the tour.
- The f*ck?
- You wanna come?
We meet in the lobby in 10.
- I think I sh*t my
intestines out last night.
You were up all night
helping me, you probably got
2 hours of sleep, what is
with you and this schedule?
- Steve Jobs spent 7 months
living in an ashram in India.
I'm immersing myself
in the Renaissance.
I want to absorb
every last drop.
- You can't fit spiritual
enlightenment into jam-packed
12-hour days with note-taking
like a little crack addict.
- People of accomplishment
don't sit back and let things
happen to them, they go out
and they happen to things.
- Ugh.
- Leonardo da Vinci.
I'm simply searching
for inspiration.
Everywhere.
- Thank you, you're doing great.
Oh, oh my God, lord almighty.
- What happened?
- Claudia, hey,
good morning, you
okay? What's going on?
Coming out the front or the
back? What's your damage?
- Damage?
- What do you mean?
I got two kids in the
clinic getting an IV,
I got a carpet that
might have to be redone,
I got 3 soiled mattresses
and five of us,
including myself, have had
shots in the old derriere.
Everyone else here
is a sh*t hydrant.
So are you telling me that
you and Lucy aren't sick?
- Lucy was throwing up, but I
think it's just from drinking.
I was just going out to
get the walking tour.
- That is a bad idea.
- No, I think that the
best medicine
is fresh air and exercise.
- Oh, you're gonna be okay.
Quentin, in the
trash can, buddy.
Ooh, boy.
- Mr. Shine, we can't make
them stay here much longer.
- Yes, I'm well aware
of that, Mrs. DeWitt.
- as*h*le.
- Guys,
it's gonna be okay, all right?
I got good news
and I got bad news.
Now, the bad news is we missed
our flight, we all knew that.
Ah, but they won't let us
get on the next one.
Apparently we are a threat
to the other passengers.
But the good news is that
I informed the school,
and your parents know,
so look, just sit tight,
stay cool, and hang in there.
Hmm, oh.
I'll be back.
Oh God.
- Hello?
It's okay.
Everything all right?
Well, make sure you're
drinking enough fluids.
Heard you were all sh**ting
like rockets out of
both ends over there.
Too soon, maybe?
- General McChrystal
just had his full
complement of new
troops arrive...
- You know, the system
is state of the art.
It's got streaming,
full catalog of movies,
you don't have to
surf cable.
- Sometimes it's easier
to have fewer choices.
- Sure.
Can I ask you something?
Why did you look so shocked
when you saw me with the
other parents at the airport?
Did you seriously think that I
wasn't gonna care that you were
sick in a foreign country?
Good, yeah.
Silent treatment.
Nice.
You know, my parents fought
like animals when I was
growing up, there was not a
single thing that went unsaid
in that house.
But they never got divorced.
And I hated them for it.
- Some people take
their vows seriously.
- Where are you going?
- Bed.
- Well, can I just, hang on?
I wanna keep talking.
- I can feel one of
your lectures coming,
and I'm not in the mood.
- Just wait a minute.
- Actually, you know what?
I just want to go home.
- This is your home, too.
- It's not, actually,
you left our home.
- All right, well, you can't
go back to your mom's right now
because we haven't gotten
the results back on whatever
you all picked up over there,
and she's immunocompromised.
So, I guess you're just gonna
have to suffer here with me.
- A man covering up his broken
home with all his possessions?
- I'm not gonna apologize
for what I've worked for.
- Of course you're not.
- These,
passive-aggressive remarks,
they're childish, you
might want to join reality,
where if there is something
that you don't like, you fix
it or you move on.
- You can just bend the
whole world to your will?
- Oh, my God, you sound
just like your mom.
Look, I grew up
poor, and I hated it.
So I chose to make
a career for myself.
I chose to be happy.
I choose to wake up every
day like it is the best
g*dd*mn day to be
alive on the earth.
- So that's your priority,
the mansion over the family.
- My marriage to your
mom was built
on love and
mutual respect.
We were partners
until we weren't.
And we became enemies,
and we tried to fix it,
but we... we couldn't,
so we moved on.
I think it is time for you
to accept reality and do
the same thing.
Fine.
Hate me for the divorce.
Judge the excesses in my life.
Be as spiteful as
you want, but whether
you like it or not, I am the
dad that you are stuck with.
Whatever you do
or say, I'm not...
I'm not gonna stop loving you.
- Well, I wish I
could say the same.
- Hmm.
This um...
friction...
It is temporary.
You got that?
Because I, do not fail.
We do not fail.
Not at this.
- Okay, listen up.
The cadaver brought to us
today was a human being.
They had a family, they were a
productive member of society.
So, I think it's
really important
that we take a moment to
give thanks for the opportunity
that they have given us
by donating their
body to science.
- Everybody,
please say hello, to Jane Doe.
Here we just call her Jane.
She was a 72-year-old
woman who died
of sepsis from a
viral infection.
- Hey, are you okay over here?
- Just trying to
get a better look.
- It's okay to be upset.
- I'm not.
- Hey.
You know, it's
totally normal, okay,
especially for those of
us who have been exposed
to the possibility of
death at a very young age.
I mean, it's really
overwhelming.
- No, the sterility of
this place is just messing
with my eyes.
- Right
- They must keep it really dry
in here to preserve Jane.
- Hmm. Well you know that's
not really Jane Doe, right?
- Yeah, I know they're
protecting her identity.
- No, what I mean to
say is that, that is,
it's just the body that
Jane Doe inhabited.
It's not really her.
Hey, you know what I think?
I think that Jane's soul
is still alive somewhere.
- That's...
that's pretty
sentimental hoodoo stuff
for a biology teacher
in distress.
- Well, not all scientists
are cold and calculated.
Vulnerability is a gift.
It makes us better.
- I'm gonna step outside before
I do any damage to my corneas.
- I want one...
- Free bites?
- ...of the apple slices.
Team.
Like a fair trade
- Hey Mr. S.!
- Hey.
You guys better bulk up.
My test is gonna
melt your brains.
- Bring it on.
- Oh, see you after lunch.
- Bye.
- Good afternoon.
Please join us in the
gymnasium for an emergency
mandatory school-wide assembly.
Thank you.
- Thank you for being here.
It is with immeasurable grief
and regret, that I share
this very tragic news with you.
Mr. Shine was biking off
of campus this afternoon
during lunch period,
and...
he was involved and k*lled in
a tragic automobile accident.
As a member of the Oaks
family for the past 7 years,
Mr. Shine was more than a
beloved biology teacher.
He was a trusted mentor.
His classes and,
his classes and peer group
will be temporarily taken over
by Mr. Dotnick, and we will
be hosting a memorial service
where students and faculty will
have an opportunity to speak.
- They said
it was impossible.
It cannot last.
It will never work.
Where others see the past,
we imagine the future.
And it is always
better than before.
History is made by those who
dare to see another world.
Not the world...
- sh*t,
you really freaked me out.
- Not the world as it is...
- Never seen you this upset.
- But the world is...
- He was my favorite teacher.
- The world that we deserve...
- I'm gonna get through this.
I'm...
gonna need to be
surrounded by positivity.
- Dare to ask, what if we could?
- Spare me that
bullshit today, please.
Somebody died, I'm allowing
you to not think positively.
- If we just dare to believe...
- Look, I know you don't
like to talk about your mom,
but, I can sort of relate to
what you're going through.
Are you scared?
- Steve Jobs had pancreatic
cancer and they cured him.
My mom will be fine.
- I'm not sure it's that simple.
- The doctors cured her
once, they'll do it again.
- Yeah, definitely.
Maybe.
Look, it...
You don't want to get
caught off guard, either.
Might be smart to consider
all possibilities.
- Why are you always
so pessimistic?
- I'm realistic.
- Good evening.
Tonight, I can report
to the American people
and to the world, that the
United States has conducted
an operation that k*lled
Osama Bin Laden, the leader of
Al Qaeda, and a t*rror1st who's
responsible for the m*rder
of thousands of innocent
men, women, and children.
It was nearly 10 years ago.
- Look at you. Ah!
Oh, honey.
- Do you like it?
I love it.
- Last week, I determined
that we had enough
intelligence to take action
and authorized an operation
to get Osama Bin Laden
and bring him to justice.
- Can you believe this?
- Today, at my direction...
- Hmm?
- Yeah.
- ...The United States
launched a targeted...
- I mean,
do you understand the
gravity of what's going on?
This is a significant
moment in history.
- I knew we were gonna get him.
- You knew we'd get
Osama Bin Laden?
- I wasn't holding my breath,
it was just a matter of when.
- He evaded capture
for 10 years,
I don't think anyone
thought it was a sure thing.
- Senior prom,
graduation, Stanford,
it was all coming up, Claudia.
Though, even I had to admit
capturing Bin Laden was
icing on the cake.
- To the real prom!
- This is it.
Topping off the list of perfect
high school accomplishments.
- You really think all of
high school is perfect?
- I've got one more
chance to get everything
I wanted from high school.
It's the last thing on the list.
I'm losing my virginity
tonight, prom night.
- Ooh!
- No, high school boys
are so selfish in bed.
I'd wait till college
if I were you,
till they know
what they're doing.
- Maybe you're just
sick of boys in general.
- To college guys.
- Yeah, to giving girls a shot.
- Shot.
- Well, I can't go
to college a virgin.
- f*cking classic.
- Okay, looks like someone's
had too much to drink.
- You can pack everything
you want into those neat
little boxes in your head,
but you can't control me.
- Well, I guess it's good you're
learning your limits now, this
way you won't be one of those
kids that goes too hard freshman
year, it's not
good for your rep.
- I never applied.
- When were you planning
on telling me that?
- We're not married.
God, you're like a
human straitjacket.
- Then what was the point?
Of all the opportunities we were
given, of all our hard work,
you go to a good university,
that's what you do.
- Half the people you look
up to dropped out of college.
- You sound
seriously delusional.
You think if I want
to be successful,
I shouldn't go to Stanford?
- You're just some pawn
in this giant experiment.
There's no paradise, Claudia.
- I know this place
isn't perfect.
- I'm talking about you.
You have imperfections.
- Oh, yeah, like what?
No, seriously, tell me
what's so wrong with me.
- You buy into all of it.
- You're blind to how
good you've got it.
I mean, I used to
look up to you,
it turns out you're just some
spoiled brat in designer clothes
who isn't smart or ambitious
enough to accomplish anything.
- You wouldn't do anything on
your own if it weren't for me.
- I'm going to change the world
while you float by aimlessly
on someone else's credit card.
- You say you're
destined for greatness,
you don't even know who you are.
- What are you talking about?
- You're some fake
f*cking robot who's scared
shitless all the time.
And I'm done
throwing you a line.
- I was the
one with the plan,
the focus, the future.
I refused to give up.
- Innovate.
- What are you doing?
- Nothing.
- Let's get out of here.
Come on.
- Look at you.
- You looked really
pretty tonight.
- Thanks.
Congratulations on getting
into Carnegie Mellon.
- Thanks.
Way to go on Stanford.
Wow.
As long as I've known you,
you haven't stopped talking
about wanting to get in there.
You actually made
your dream come true.
- Not a dream, it was a plan.
- Right.
- Hey, we'll both be
studying engineering.
That's fun.
- What are you talking about?
- Carnegie Mellon has a
great engineering program.
I'm sure you'll do
really well there.
- Oh, I'm... actually
done with all that.
Yeah, I'm gonna
major in philosophy.
- But numbers and coding
always come easily to you.
You were always on
the advanced track.
I had to work my a*s
off just to keep up.
- So?
- So you have the potential
to become the next Zuckerberg
and you're squandering it.
You even sort of look like him.
- Who gives a f*ck? What?
I'm not defined by that
and I don't want to be.
This is my one life, I want
to do something that I enjoy.
Do you even like coding?
- Nobody actually likes coding.
- Yes, many actually do.
- The technology
we've grown up with,
it's serving humanity,
I wanna do that, to build that.
It does.
- Sometimes, sure.
But, okay, remember
in the 1950s,
tobacco companies paid
doctors to tell people that
smoking was good for them.
We are the new guinea
pig generation,
and trust me, this
sh*t is toxic.
- Wow, jaded much?
- I just can't wait
to get out of here.
- Don't say that.
- I've liked you
for a long time.
I thought you were kind
and smart and funny.
But you already knew that.
Whoa, whoa, what are you doing?
- Don't you want to do it?
- Not like this.
Hold on, slow down.
- Can you just
put it in already?
- Why are you rushing
this all of a sudden?
- Why aren't you?
Look, you've waited forever to
make a move, I'm taking charge.
- Taking charge of what?
Does this, does this mean
anything to you?
- Of course it does.
It's my first time,
I'll always remember it.
- Claudia, I love you.
Do you even like me?
- I went to prom with you.
Now I'm begging you to f*ck me.
What else do you need?
Let's cap off senior year
the way we're supposed to.
- Stop.
I was wrong to think
that you and this place
weren't one and the same.
Just another
Silicon Valley knockoff.
- Quentin.
- You can't treat
me like just another thing
to check off your to-do list.
- sh*t!
g*dd*mn.
- Honey,
I waited up for you.
How was it?
- Fan-f*cking-tastic.
- Okay, talk to me.
Hey.
- Is this what
failing feels like?
It's horrible.
- What did you fail at?
- Had it all mapped out.
Perfect prom night.
- Uh-huh.
- I was going to
have sex with him
and then we were gonna go
to different schools and I'd
never have to see him again.
- Oh, boy.
- But I can fix this.
Skinny dipping, that'll work,
need to get him to come here.
-Hey, come on, come on,
let's slow down, okay?
Okay, okay, come on, let it go,
it's over.
- Give it to me, give it to me.
- Let it go, it's over.
It's over.
Honey, you need to stop
with this pressure.
- I had a plan.
- We plan, God laughs.
- Do I look amused?
- Hey, things happen when
they're supposed to happen.
You have to learn to let go.
- That spiritual crap is
for people that don't have
the willpower to go out
and make things happen.
- Hey, don't take a shot at me!
- Tonight was really important.
- You can't just bend the
entire world to your will,
especially something like this.
Relationships are intimate.
They should have real meaning.
- Mom, I didn't want
to marry him,
I just needed a nice guy
to, pop my cherry
and get it over with.
- Wow.
- Not everything has
to be so sentimental.
- Well, some things
should have sentiment.
Hey.
You know how I went to that
city council meeting tonight?
- Yeah, why'd you go to that?
- Well, Apple announced
they were building their new
headquarters and they
wanted to talk about its
impact on the community.
The building they designed
looks like a giant spaceship,
but guess who showed up
to make the presentation?
- No.
- Yeah.
- He was there?
- Yeah.
- You knew
this and you didn't tell me?
- No, I didn't know.
We all thought it was
gonna be Apple execs.
We were shocked when he
walked through the front door.
Claudia!
- How could this happen?
He's the single most
important person in my life.
- Well, that's lovely
to hear as your mother.
- I love you and Dad, but...
you've got to understand
what he's done for us,
for the world.
- What?
- I need to be him!
- Why can't you just be you?
- I'm not good enough.
- One day we'll look
back on this and laugh.
- Do you think I could
still meet him one day?
- You're gonna have a lot
of chances to meet him.
He's a very young man.
- Hey.
It's the graduate.
Looking for you.
Ready for all this?
- I've wanted to go to
Stanford my entire life.
- Yeah, just um...
Don't go into college
with some preconceived
notion of what you
think you should be doing.
You know what I'm saying?
Just...
I want you to be happy.
- I'm living the dream.
- Yeah.
Okay.
- At long last,
Mecca.
Epic, failure.
My very first computer
science lecture
may as well have been
taught underwater.
I told myself, if I just
worked harder than anyone else,
I could survive.
But that was a lie.
The truth?
I hated computer science.
I even took a
g*dd*mn calligraphy class
just like the one
Steve Jobs took.
I was horrible at it.
- No.
Oh my God.
No, no, no, no, no.
f*cking iPhone!
- When one is buried,
are they not truly in the
presence of possibility?
Wasn't it Emerson who wrote,
It is not the length of life,
but the depth of life.
He who is not every day
conquering some fear
has not learned
the secret of life.
In this depth,
one is evergreen like a seed.
Indeed, I am a future flower.
Hey.
I've never seen you here before.
- I'm a freshman.
- Oh, no, I meant at our
creative writing group.
- Oh, I just stumbled
in, it was an accident.
- Well, I mean, if you
believe in accidents.
Is it cool if I sit?
- Yeah, sure.
- So...
what's your story?
- I don't really have one.
- Well, I mean, we all do.
Why don't you read me something?
- Like what?
- Anything.
- Oh, I'm not a writer.
- Then what are you studying?
- I don't know.
I thought I did,
but,
now everything's changed.
Can't believe Steve Jobs died.
- He did?
- Are you kidding me?
Have you not seen the news?
- No, I...
I don't...
I don't believe in cell phones.
- Fantastic.
Bet you think you're too
good for a laptop, too.
What do you write your stories
with a quill and parchment?
- Oh.
Okay.
Steve Jobs.
The King of Silicon Valley.
- He was way more than that.
- Really?
You want to know what I think?
I think,
that his whole act, changing the
world for the better,
not caring about the
money, it's all bullshit.
I mean,
he was a complete genius.
Most cult leaders are.
So, you're so convinced
that you need these
things to transcend your life.
It's almost impossible to
live without his little
inventions because every 30
seconds your brain craves the
dopamine hit it gets from
that little flash of light.
And if that wasn't enough, you
feed off likes, comments, posts,
tags, like a bunch of
little validation addicts.
- You don't understand.
I grew up in the valley,
he was everything.
My...my whole world.
- Well, what was it like
growing up in his shadow?
- I finally realized it wasn't
Steve Jobs I was obsessed with.
It was his ability to envision
something out in the ether
beyond our wildest dreams.
And, to create one
thing after another,
out of nothing and share it
fearlessly with the world.
I mean, isn't that what
we're all here to do?
To contribute,
be brave,
and try to connect to
this very moment.
Our creations can
take infinite forms.
Thoughts.
Relationships.
Hopes and dreams.
Music.
Babies.
Memories.
People migrate to Silicon Valley
because they believe that
they can change the world.
There's something
unmistakable in the air.
A buzz, a belief.
A floating mist of
optimistic spirit.
And a desperate tangible
fear of failure.
Throughout history, we've
learned repeatedly that
people who blindly
follow their leaders,
folks who take
scripture too literally,
are the dangerous ones.
That's where I went off course.
It's not Silicon Valley
that's the problem.
It's what I did with it
that made it so perverse.
Silicon Valley only
looks to the future.
So here I am, turning back.
I no longer wish to
become Steve Jobs,
but to become, me.
So here it is.
This is mine.
And it's an original.
Any questions?
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