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61 " What would you do when you weren’t online?” To Schillace and his colleagues, the question was shortsighted. It was like condemning an appliance for using electricity. "
― Steven Levy , In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
62 " Arthur Clarke once remarked that the best technology was indistinguishable from magic. "
63 " I don’t know Stallman well. I know him well enough to know he is a hard man to like.” (And that was in the preface of Stallman’s own book!) "
― Steven Levy , Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
64 " still working hard at Google, even though they had the wealth of Saudi princes. "
65 " But mostly people hacked Tools to Make Tools. Or games. And they would come into computer stores to show off their hacks. "
66 " apostasy "
― Steven Levy , Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything
67 " there were no artificial obstacles, things that are insisted upon that make it hard for people to get any work done — things like bureaucracy, security, refusals to share with other people. "
68 " Zuckerberg hadn’t approached Thefacebook that way. He was building something that he wanted for himself, and people were naturally flocking to it. That had been the story of the giants of tech—Apple, eBay, Yahoo!, Google. "
― Steven Levy , Facebook: The Inside Story
69 " There is nothing more frustrating to a hacker than to see an extension to a system and not be able to keep hands-on. "
70 " Mark Zuckerberg allegedly serving Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey an undercooked goat "
71 " Even when zeroing in on privacy, they showboated. "
72 " There’s a very strong belief at Google that if the product is better, people will use it anyway,” says Griffin. “You might not like not having support; you might want to talk to somebody. But are you going to stop using it? If we create better products, support isn’t a differentiating factor. "
73 " The man of the future. Hands on a keyboard, eyes on a CRT, in touch with the body of information and thought that the world had been storing since history began. It would all be accessible to Computational Man. "
74 " There’s nothing illegal about a Defense Department funding research. It’s certainly better than a Commerce Department or Education Department funding research . . . because that would lead to thought control. I would much rather have the military in charge of that . . . the military people make no bones about what they want, so we’re not under any subtle pressures. It’s clear what’s going on. The case of ARPA was unique, because they felt that what this country needed was people good in defense technology. In case we ever needed it, we’d have it. "
75 " ��The very best companies in the world are best not only because of their creativity, but because of their ability to implement. "
76 " hackerese pejorative. "
77 " Even at that early date, the basic building blocks of web search had been already set in stone. Search was a four-step process. First came a sweeping scan of all the world’s web pages, via a spider. Second was indexing the information drawn from the spider’s crawl and storing the data on racks of computers known as servers. The third step, triggered by a user’s request, identified the pages that seemed best suited to answer that query. That result was known as search quality. The final step involved formatting and delivering the results to the user. "
78 " Samson "
79 " While Google expected to make most of its money from licensing, Armstrong was told, advertising might one day account for as much as 10 to 15 percent of its revenue. "
80 " Well,” he said, “we think that companies suck.” Yahoo!’s president, Dan Rosensweig, broke the tension with a quip. “At Yahoo!, we like to think we suck less.” Everyone had a good laugh. "