High Plains Hardware

Halt and Catch Fire 1×3

& Gordon: Look, it’s not your fault. It’s no one’s fault. It’s like when you get an early snow and it freezes your orange grove. And then the farmer has to find another way to deliver the juice. Even if every snowflake is totally unique like you.

& MacMillan: 28 pounds. That’s not portable, that’s luggable.

& MacMillan: We’re making this... By the end of this year, Cardiff Electric will release to the market a truly portable computer with two disk drives, integrated screen, and keyboard, weighing no more than 15 pounds. ..... Yes, that’s correct. It’s ambitious.

& MacMillan: Aaron Littlefield, Eiger & Littlefield Venture Capital.
    Bosworth: “Venture capital”? Hell, I remember when it was still called “money.”

& Bosworth: Yeah, no more biz-to-biz. We’re pushing doorbells and pounding pavement.
    MacMillan: Along with a sophisticated media campaign...
    Bosworth: Oh, sophisticated, my ass. Come on, Joe. We’re tired of these doodad launches and corporate suites. No, I wanna breathe me some air. You know, mom-and-pop stores, county fairs. Now, we may not have the track record or the balance sheet, but, by God, we got heart. That can-do Texas spirit, y’all.

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& Gordon: I mean, we could recess the keyboard in the bottom cover and run the connector cable through the hinges...
    Brian: Okay. No one’s ever done that before.
    Gordon: Well, does that mean it can’t be done?
    Brian: No, just expensive.
    Gordon: Well, how else are we gonna make room for the screen?..

& Donna: Software comes and goes...
    Gordon: Hardware is forever.

& Bosworth: Hey, what is the difference between “Go To” and “Go Sub”?
    Cameron: Oh, “Go To” executes the next line. “Go Sub,” you need, like, a return command at the end.
    Bosworth: That makes no sense to me.
    Cameron: Yeah, it’s hard at the beginning.

& Bosworth: And, Cameron? You can work here as late as you’d like... You cannot live here.

& MacMillan: We’re not gonna be partners.
    Loulu: Why’s that?
    MacMillan: Because you’re a bored, poisonous dilettante with time on her hands and no taste. Two things destroy companies, Ms. Lutherford... mediocrity and making it about yourself.

& MacMillan: Cameron... why are you here?
    Cameron: I’m stuck.

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