Don't exaggerate the power of "theft"

Beulah 2022-02-26 08:02:17

Steve Jobs was a restless boy, thinking about big things all day and trying to be a big man. He and a few accomplices researched electric panels, established a company, and finally stole the computer technology of Fuji Xerox, which made him a big hit, and appeared in "Fortune" and "Time", with great satisfaction. When the challenge to IBM was about to be successful, it was discovered that it was stolen by a small man with "no quality". This little man coaxed him around, showing his weakness on the surface to show humility, but secretly sold his stolen operating system to NEC, got a big order, and his business started to take off. This man later became the world's richest man - Bill Gates.
This time, I was dumbfounded. The arrogant and arrogant Steve Jobs finally suffered a blow. He stubbornly said, "We will be better than you in the end," but Bill Gates simply responded with "It doesn't matter".
The result of being a pirate is like this, if you don't rob others, you will be robbed by others. A single negligence on your part can lead to a complete loss. That may be what the writer and director of Pirates of Silicon Valley wanted to tell us.
But, unfortunately, this conclusion is too shallow.
Yes, Apple and Microsoft took off by stealing other people's stuff, but it's definitely not these "steals" that determine their success. If success is so simple, everyone can be all thieves, why do so many R&D personnel do?
The director may think so, to condense the decades of experience of Gates and Jobs into this one-and-a-half hour movie, it must be compressed to highlight their uniqueness. The ability to persuade, and at the same time to highlight Gates' steadfastness and tenacious fighting spirit, these ideas are all very good, but this raises a question, is the compressed thing still the real thing?
Check out the information on the starting points of Gates and Jobs' careers, and you will find that "Apple" and "Microsoft" can dominate the world not by "stealing" at all, but by persevering struggle. Jobs, like his name "Jobs", is an uncompromising workaholic, and when "Microsoft" was just a small team of a few people, Gates worked for several days without changing his underwear, which annoyed his colleagues around him. Cover your nose to work. They definitely have a lot of sweat soaked in it to lead the company to create an era.
It's a pity that these episodes didn't appear in "Pirates Of Silicon Valley / Silicon Valley Legend", all we see is the "legend" who pretends to be a cool and cursed boss all day long and keeps making high comments, and the hunched body that seems to be The little Bill, who was malnourished but full of bad water, was speechless.
Picasso said: "A good artist copies, a great artist steals." The director took it as the truth and told it all about it. It's just that the director ignored Picasso's statement that "stealing" only refers to the imitation at the entry stage, and after entry, you need to use your creativity. "Theft" is only a temporary measure, not the whole truth. For example, when you enter high school, you don't understand a lot of things, then you meet a teacher, he imparts all knowledge to you, and finally you go to university, you can attribute the reason for your success in the entrance exam to "stealing" Is this teacher? Without this teacher, there will be other teachers who will impart this knowledge to you. After all, this is what you must master and what the school should teach. It's a must for you to appreciate what this teacher has given you, but you can't attribute all your success to this teacher, can you? After all, after someone teaches you something, you still need to put in your own hard work and sweat, just accumulate and store these things and use them to get a score to get admitted to college. If the reason for the success of the business is "stealing" others, wouldn't it be a waste of time?
Of course, this is a commercial film after all, not a documentary. There is no need to review the struggles and entanglements of Microsoft and Apple in their entirety, as long as they can create conflicts, entertain the public, and provide you with some talking points.
Therefore, it seems unnecessary for me to talk about "struggle" and "creation" like this.

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Extended Reading
  • Summer 2022-03-25 09:01:22

    good artists copy great artists steal

  • Shannon 2022-03-28 09:01:12

    It turned out to be a film from 1999, but now it seems to have a different feeling. The technique of the film itself is not brilliant, but the experience itself is legendary enough. Steve's arrogance is always true, Bill is restrained and knows how to grasp the timing, and character determines his destiny

Pirates of Silicon Valley quotes

  • Paul Allen: Bill, why did you tell them we had an operating system? We don't have a thing to sell them now, you know? We're dead!

    Bill Gates: We're not dead, you're going to give us that miracle, right, Paul?

    Paul Allen: Huh? Oh yeah, right...

    Bill Gates: Come on, I thought you said you knew a guy we could buy an operating system from!

    Paul Allen: I said I "sort of" know one.

    Bill Gates: Sort of? Don't tell me "sort of"! I just told IBM!

    Paul Allen: Sort of...

  • Steve Jobs: Are you sure this thing is even gonna work?

    Steve Wozniak: If it doesn't catch fire.

    Steve Jobs: Don't even joke.