Daily Dialogue — May 25, 2018

“My mother may be a troubled woman but what’s your excuse? That’s why I’m not impressed with your story, Dad. It’s that you knew and you didn’t do anything about it. And that makes you an unconscionable coward. And not for nothin’, but ‘Think’ is a verb making ‘Different’ an adverb. You’re asking people to ‘Think DifferentLY’. And you can talk about the Bauhaus movement and Braun and simplicity is sophistication and Issey Miyake uniforms and Bob Dylan lyrics all you want, but that thing… (pointing at one of the posters of the iMac)… looks like Judy Jetson’s Easy Bake Oven!”

— Steve Jobs (2015), written by Aaron Sorkin

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Aaron Sorkin.

Trivia: According to the Isaacson biography, Jobs was invited to give the 2005 Stanford commencement address. He asked Sorkin help him with the speech, but didn’t hear anything further, so Jobs wrote it himself. It began “today, I want to tell you three stories from my life….”

Dialogue On Dialogue: Although this movie didn’t do much at the box office, I thought it was fantastic. And this scene featuring Jobs’ estranged daughter Lisa is superb. After her monologue, Jobs mutters to no one in particular, “There’s no way in the world that’s not my kid.” A great topper.