7 Quotes & Sayings By Steven Levy

Steven Levy is a staff writer at Wired and the author of Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (a New York Times bestseller, award winner, and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction), and The Rise and Fall of Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. He is also the author of two novels—The Perfect Thing and The Incompleat Idiot—and a collection of short stories, titled The Incompleat Man. He has written for Rolling Stone, Fast Company, The New Yorker, Wired, Harper's, Esquire, Playboy, GQ, and many other magazines. His work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays.

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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 Steven Levy
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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) Steven Levy
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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 Steven Levy
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You can’t argue with facts. You’re not entitled to your own facts. Steven Levy
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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. Steven Levy
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There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. Steven Levy