Pirates of the Silicon Valley

Steve Jobs (Noah Wyle) and Bill Gates (Anthony Michael Hall)

" Good artists copy, great artists steal." - Steve Jobs 

1. What is the story all about?
          A tech-world biopic film that traces the fortunes of personal computer companies Apple and Microsoft from their ambiguous dorm-room and backyard origin to their public battle for corporate supremacy. The movie is a dramatized story of the early professional lives of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, two men who made the technology world what it is today. It somehow discloses their struggles and efforts especially during their college years, as well as the skills they have that accompanied them to where they are right now.  


2. What are your realizations/insights/morals?

• Persevere

        The key to accomplishing all our hopes and dreams is to have and keep that fighting spirit in our hearts. We learned from the movie that anything is possible when one is determined to start and finish a plan. Through perseverance, we are able to apply and test our capabilities, to know its limits and learn from it. Moreover, even if struggles and difficulties will come into play, we must always remember that perseverance would be the only thing that would keep us moving, moving forward.

• Imagine

            Imagination is far more important than knowledge because without the former, one cannot attain the latter. Imagination allows our minds to keep working out. It opens the different possibilities in this complex world and at the end of day, might lead to great discoveries just like what the lead actors had in the film. Never stop imagining :) 

• Appreciate

            Because of the movie, we were able to appreciate more what we have. We think that it is just right to pay tribute to these two men who introduced the amazing technology we all benefit from now. Second, the film made us realized that we need to appreciate each individual's talents and differences though the movie depicted it in the opposite way- stealing other people's concepts. Third, it also made us realized that at the end of the day, despite all the success that we might achieve, we will all go back to what we were before, a friend, a father, a social being that has responsibility to its co-human. Appreciate the things and most especially the people around us for we might not know when will they be taken away from us. 

3. What will be the world of technology be without this story?

       The world of technology would be a mess or maybe a world that we least expect. Without this story, we guessed that no one would take the initiative to make the world what it is now, or if there was, it wouldn't be as brilliant or as successful as what Steve Jobs and Bill Gates contributed. The story triggered our minds that through imagination, talent, and some wise thinking, we all gonna achieve all our dreams and somehow contribute to the society. In the end, what their story is would definitely serve as our inspiration to aspire and achieve greater heights. 

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