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Steven Levy

Data di nascita: 26. Gennaio 1951

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Steven Levy , giornalista statunitense.

Frasi Steven Levy

„Il telegrafo, il telefono, la radio e soprattutto il computer hanno fatto sì che chiunque, in qualsiasi parte del mondo, si trovi ora nella condizione di essere a portata d'orecchio. Purtroppo, il prezzo da pagare per questo è la perdita di privacy.“

— Steven Levy
da Crypto. I ribelli del codice in difesa della privacy

Su Dio, sul mondo, sull'arte

„La ragione per cui ho cominciato a scrivere degli hacker, quei programmatori e progettisti di computer che considerano l'informatica come la cosa più importante al mondo, era che si trattava di gente affascinante.“

— Steven Levy
da Hackers. Gli eroi della rivoluzione informatica

Sul mondo
Pubblicità

„Come ingegnere, Jobs non era niente di speciale; la sua forza stava nell'essere un planner, uno che sapeva vedere come i computer potessero estendere le loro applicazioni molto oltre al punto sognato da hacker pure come Steve Wozniak.“

— Steven Levy
da Hackers. Gli eroi della rivoluzione informatica

„Steven Levy, Hackers. Gli eroi della rivoluzione informatica, Edizioni Shake (1996), traduzione di Ermanno Guarnieri e Luca Piercecchi. ISBN 88-86926-97-9“

— Steven Levy

„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

„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

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

— Steven Levy, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

Pubblicità

„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

„to absorb, explore, and expand the intricacies of those bewitching systems;“

— Steven Levy, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

„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

„Google had a built-in disadvantage in the social networking sweepstakes. It was happy to gather information about the intricate web of personal and professional connections known as the “social graph” (a term favored by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg) and integrate that data as signals in its search engine. But the basic premise of social networking—that a personal recommendation from a friend was more valuable than all of human wisdom, as represented by Google Search—was viewed with horror at Google. Page and Brin had started Google on the premise that the algorithm would provide the only answer. Yet there was evidence to the contrary. One day a Googler, Joe Kraus, was looking for an anniversary gift for his wife. He typed “Sixth Wedding Anniversary Gift Ideas” into Google, but beyond learning that the traditional gift involved either candy or iron, he didn’t see anything creative or inspired. So he decided to change his status message on Google Talk, a line of text seen by his contacts who used Gmail, to “Need ideas for sixth anniversary gift—candy ideas anyone?” Within a few hours, he got several amazing suggestions, including one from a colleague in Europe who pointed him to an artist and baker whose medium was cake and candy. (It turned out that Marissa Mayer was an investor in the company.) It was a sobering revelation for Kraus that sometimes your friends could trump algorithmic search.“

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

Pubblicità

„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

„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

„[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

„Because to hackers, passwords were even more odious than locked doors.“

— Steven Levy, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

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