"Buồn cười gửi-up của Giám đốc điều hành của Apple, nền văn hóa các go-go của Thung lũng Silicon, và sùng bái các của Mac, iPhone, và iPod."-Boston Globe "Trong các truyền thống thành lập-skewering của Voltaire, Cervantes, Jonathan Swift, và Laurence Sterne. . . . Mac-slappingly buồn cười. . . . | doing song-and-dance numbers. After the meal Larry gets up and shows off his karate moves which scares the shit out of the geisha girls. They all go running from the room screaming. By the time we re done it s five in the afternoon. From Larry s driveway we can see out over the entire Valley. Low black clouds are massing overhead getting ready to pour. Up here in the hills a few fat drops have started splattering down. All those poor bastards Larry says nodding toward Route 280 where the traffic is jammed up and inching along. They have no idea what s about to hit them. It s just a rain storm. I m talking about the SEC thing. You remember the quake in 89 You remember where you were right before everything started shaking All they re doing is sending out letters. Just wait until people start getting arrested. Wait till stocks start getting slaughtered. You re going to see market caps cut in half. You ll see billions of dollars wiped out overnight. We re not talking about a few rich assholes paying some fines. We re talking about all these poor bastards out there on the highway having their retirement funds wiped out and their savings destroyed. Then come the layoffs. This is bad Jobso. This is big and bad and scary and endemic. This is going to hurt everyone in the Valley. It s like the war on terror and we re the terrorists. Larry I say I love you but I think you re being a little melodramatic here. He takes me by the shoulders. He looks me straight in the eyes and he s not smiling. Listen. Listen to me. Don t mess around with these guys. Don t fight them. Just settle. No matter how much money they want just pay the bastards and move on. Sign a confession do whatever you have to do. 17 3 Tom Bowditch has a seat on our board because ten years ago when we were almost dead he bought a huge chunk of our stock and got himself elected to a director s position. He s seventy-three years old and has spent most of his career as a corporate raider. He s obnoxious abrasive and
