Quotes by Steven Levy

About Steven Levy:

Steven Levy is an American journalist who has written several books on computers, technology, cryptography, the Internet, cybersecurity, and privacy.
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The fact that biological, or 'natural' rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions...

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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

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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)

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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

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[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.

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

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The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

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Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

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There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

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I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine.

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We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters.

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Author Bio

  • NameSteven Levy
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist
  • BornJanuary 26, 1951
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist