"Jobs and Sculley asked for other ideas, but the agency folks pushed back. 'You guys didn't want to run "1984" last year,' one of them said. According to Sculley, Lee Clow added, 'I will put my whole reputation, everything, on this commercial.' When the filmed version, done by Ridley Scott's brother Tony, came in, the concept looked even worse. The mindless managers marching off the cliff were singing a funeral-paced version of the Snow White song 'Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho,' and the dreary filmmaking made it even more depressing than the storyboards portended. 'I can't believe you're going to insult businesspeople across America by running that,' Debi Coleman yelled at Jobs when she saw the ad. At the marketing meetings, she stood up to make her point about how much she hated it. 'I literally put a resignation letter on his desk. I wrote it on my Mac. I thought it was an affront to corporate managers. We were just beginning to get a toehold with desktop publishing.' "
— from Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, p. 187.
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