"Let me be straight with you," Jobs replied. “我直截了当地和你说吧，”乔布斯告诉他，

"What I'd rather have is an airplane. We just had a third kid. “我更想要一架私人飞机。我刚刚有了第三个孩子。

I don't like flying commercial. I like to take my family to Hawaii. 我不喜欢搭商业航班。我只是想带全家去夏威夷度假。

When I go east, I'd like to have pilots I know." 当我去东海岸的时候，我更愿意让我认识的飞行员开飞机。”

He was never the type of person who could display grace and patience in a commercial airplane or terminal, even before the days of the TSA. 他是一个对商业航班和航站楼毫无好感和耐心的人，即便是被美国运输安全管理局（TSA）接管之前也是一样。

Board member Larry Ellison, whose plane Jobs sometimes used (Apple paid $102,000 to Ellison in 1999 for Jobs's use of it), had no qualms. 董事会成员拉里·埃利森爽快地答应了乔布斯的要求（乔布斯用过几次他的飞机，为此苹果公司在1999年向埃利森支付了10.2万美元）。

"Given what he's accomplished, we should give him five airplanes!" Ellison argued. 埃利森还说：“看在他作出那么多贡献的份上，给他5架飞机都不为过！”

He later said, "It was the perfect thank-you gift for Steve, who had saved Apple and gotten nothing in return." 他后来又说：“这是一个完美的‘致谢礼物’，他拯救了苹果，却不求回报。”

So Woolard happily granted Jobs's wish, with a Gulfstream V, and also offered him fourteen million stock options. 所以，伍拉德愉快地答应了乔布斯的要求，一架湾流V型飞机，此外还赠与他1400万份期权。

Jobs gave an unexpected response. He wanted more: twenty million options. 但是乔布斯的回应出乎所有人的意料。他想要更多：“2000万份。”

Woolard was baffled and upset. The board had authority from the stockholders to give out only fourteen million. 伍拉德既困惑又生气。董事会只有权从股东那里分出1400万份期权。

"You said you didn't want any, and we gave you a plane, which you did want," Woolard said. 伍拉德说：“你说你不要别的，我们给了你一架飞机，你说你只要飞机。”

"I hadn't been insisting on options before," Jobs replied, 乔布斯回答：“我从来没有在期权的问题上坚持过，

"but you suggested it could be up to 5% of the company in options, and that's what I now want." 但是你曾建议说，我最多能拿到公司5%的期权，这就是我现在想要的。”