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Steven Levy QUOTES

1 " We designed Google to be the kind of place where the kind of people we wanted to work here would work for free.
- Urs Hölzle "

― Steven Levy , In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

2 " Ideas... [are] like babies - everything about their environment [says] they shouldn't exist. But they do. You can't dwell on problems too early, or they will swamp the virtues and you will decide not to do the project.
(Attributed to Mike Jones) "

― Steven Levy , In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

3 " Inherently, Larry & Serge aren't paper-oriented - they're product oriented. If they have another 10 minutes, they want to make something better. They don't want to take 10 minutes to tell you something they did.
- Terry Winograd "

― Steven Levy , In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

4 " You can’t argue with facts. You’re not entitled to your own facts. "

― Steven Levy , In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

5 " [Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages, behaviour, and desires. "

― Steven Levy , In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

6 " All good teachers will tell you that the most important quality they bring to their teaching is their love for the children. But what does that mean? It means that before we can teach them, we need to delight in them. Someone once said that children need one thing in order to succeed in life: someone who is crazy about them. We need to find a way to delight in all our students. We may be the only one in their lives to do so. We need to look for the best, expect the best, find something in each child that we can truly treasure.... If children recognize that we have seen their genius, who they really are, they will have the confidence and resilience to take risks in learning. I am convinced that many learning and social difficulties would disappear if we learned to see the genius in each child and then created a learning environment that encourages it to develop. "

― Steven Levy

7 " Systems are organic, living creations: if people stop working on them and improving them, they die. "

― Steven Levy , Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

8 " the Hacker Ethic, which instructs you to keep working until your hack tops previous efforts. "

― Steven Levy , Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

9 " Epstein came up with an elaborate plan, including TV ads, and presented it to the board. The board rejected it.

“It really came down to this,” McCaffrey later said. “We have a limited budget. Do we want to put that money into the technology, into the infrastructure, into hiring really great people? Or do we want to blow it on a marketing campaign that we can’t measure?” Larry and Sergey told Epstein that his interim stint was over "

― Steven Levy , In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

10 " She noted the lack of female hardware hackers, and was enraged at the male hacker obsession with technological play and power. "

― Steven Levy , Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

11 " It is astounding that Google, whose corporate philosophy is ‘don’t be evil,’ would enable evil by cooperating with China’s censorship policies just to make a buck,” he said in a press release. “… Many Chinese have suffered imprisonment and torture in the service of truth—and now Google is collaborating with their persecutors. "

― Steven Levy , In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

12 " Every problem has a better solution when you start thinking about it differently than the normal way. "

― Steven Levy , Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

13 " It’s your life story if you’re a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib. "

― Steven Levy , Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

14 " To Dick’s mind, the flow of information should be channeled with discretion, with an unambiguous interpretation controlled by the people at the top. "

― Steven Levy , Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

15 " To hackers, a program was an organic entity that had a life independent from that of its author. "

― Steven Levy , Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

16 " toxic addictiveness... news feed and other "infinite scrolls" the worst offenders.. "

― Steven Levy , Facebook: The Inside Story

17 " People were indeed comfortable with sharing, Zuckerberg told him. A third of his users, he said, share their cell-phone numbers on their profile page. “That’s evidence that they trust us.” Graham was startled at how emotionless and hesitant this kid was. At times, before he’d answer a question—even something that he must have been asked thousands of times, like what percentage of Harvard kids were on Thefacebook—he would fall silent, staring into the ether for thirty seconds or so. Does he not understand the question? Graham wondered. Did I offend him? Nonetheless, before the meeting was over, Graham became convinced that Thefacebook was the best business idea he’d heard in years, and told Zuckerberg and Parker that if they wanted an investor who was not a VC, the Post would be interested. "

― Steven Levy , Facebook: The Inside Story

18 " Because to hackers, passwords were even more odious than locked doors. "

― Steven Levy , Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

19 " When you’re in a hole, stop digging. "

― Steven Levy , Facebook: The Inside Story

20 " We believe that innovative authors are more likely to come from people who are independent and won’t work in a software ‘factory’ or ‘bureaucracy. "

― Steven Levy , Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution