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Raskin had one problem: Jobs regarded him as an insufferable theorist or, to use Jobs's own more precise terminology, "a shithead who sucks."
拉斯金有一個麻煩。喬布斯認(rèn)為他是個讓人難以忍受的理論家，用喬布斯的原話來說，就是個“糟糕透頂?shù)陌装V”。
So Raskin enlisted his friend Atkinson, who fell on the other side of Jobs's shithead/genius division of the world, to convince Jobs to take an interest in what was happening at Xerox PARC.
因此，拉斯金只好找來自己的朋友阿特金森，讓他去說腋喬布斯關(guān)注一下施樂PARC的研究進(jìn)展，因?yàn)樵趩滩妓埂安皇翘觳啪褪前装V”的世界中，阿特金森是屬于天才這一邊的。
What Raskin didn't know was that Jobs was working on a more complex deal.
拉斯金不知道的是，喬布斯正在進(jìn)行一項(xiàng)更為復(fù)雜的交易。
Xerox's venture capital division wanted to be part of the second round of Apple financing during the summer of 1979.
施樂的風(fēng)險投資部門想要參與蘋果公司在1979年夏天進(jìn)行的第二輪融資。
Jobs made an offer: "I will let you invest a million dollars in Apple if you will open the kimono at PARC."
喬布斯開出了條件：“如果你們愿意掲開施樂PARC的神秘面紗，我就同意你們投資100萬美元?！?/div>
Xerox accepted. It agreed to show Apple its new technology and in return got to buy 100,000 shares at about $10 each.
施樂公司接受了，同意向蘋果展示其新技術(shù)；作為回報，他們可以每股10美元的價格購買10萬股蘋果公司的股票。
By the time Apple went public a year later, Xerox's $1 million worth of shares were worth $17.6 million.
一年之后，蘋果公司上市了，施樂花100萬美元購買的股票已經(jīng)價值1760萬。
But Apple got the better end of the bargain.
但在這場交易中，蘋果公司獲益更多。
Jobs and his colleagues went to see Xerox PARC's technology in December 1979 and, when Jobs realized he hadn't been shown enough, got an even fuller demonstration a few days later.
喬布斯和同事們在1979年12月參觀了施樂PARC的技術(shù)成果，但喬布斯覺得他看到的并不是全部，于是幾天之后又得到了一次更加全面的展示。
Larry Tesler was one of the Xerox scientists called upon to do the briefings, and he was thrilled to show off the work that his bosses back east had never seemed to appreciate.
拉里·特斯勒是奉命進(jìn)行展示的施樂科學(xué)家之一，他對有機(jī)會展示自己的工作成果非常興奮，因?yàn)檫@些從來都得不到遠(yuǎn)在東部的老板們的賞識。
But the other briefer, Adele Goldberg, was appalled that her company seemed willing to give away its crown jewels.
但另一名展示者，阿黛爾·戈德堡,對于公司愿意把自己最寶貴的科研成果拱手示人感到震驚。
"It was incredibly stupid, completely nuts, and I fought to prevent giving Jobs much of anything," she recalled.
“那么做是無比愚蠢、徹底瘋狂的，我想盡辦法，阻止喬布斯獲取太多信息?！彼f道。
Goldberg got her way at the first briefing.
第一次展示會上，戈德堡得逞了。
Jobs, Raskin, and the Lisa team leader John Couch were ushered into the main lobby, where a Xerox Alto had been set up.
喬布斯、拉斯金以及麗薩團(tuán)隊的負(fù)責(zé)人約翰·庫奇被帶到大廳，在那里，一臺施樂的奧圖電腦已經(jīng)準(zhǔn)備就緒。
"It was a very controlled show of a few applications, primarily a word-processing one," Goldberg said.
“只給他們展示了很有限的幾個應(yīng)用，最主要的是一個文字處理程序?！备甑卤せ貞浾f。
