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Ocupation: Journalist

Life: b. 1951

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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. (OK, it doesn't take a genius, or even a politician, to figure out that big changes are afoot when we have a medium that lets someone throw up a virtual storefront on the Web and instantly gain access to the global market.)

Topics: Genius, World, Gains, Industrial Revolution, Cusp

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You can create art and beauty with a computer.

Topics: Art, Computer

At the core of Silicon Valley is a passion for 'yes.'

Topics: Passion, Valleys, Silicon Valley

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.

Topics: Beautiful, Thinking, Ideas, Hardware, Napster

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

Topics: Artist, Technology, Computer, Computer Technology

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

Topics: Revolution, World, Dramatic

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 involved, making art.

Topics: Fashion, Art, Interesting

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

source: - Steven Levy (2010). “Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.332, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Topics: Bugs, Debugging, Computer

Find a way to delight in all students. Look for the best, expect the best, and find something in each child [you] can treasure.

Topics: Children, Teaching, Delight

The Hacker Ethic: Access to computers--and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works--should be unlimited and total. Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative! All information should be free. Mistrust authority--promote decentralization. Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position. You can create art and beauty on a computer. Computers can change your life for the better.

Topics: Art, Yield, Race, Decentralization

[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.

Topics: Google, Desire, Behaviour

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

Topics: Facts, Arguing, Entitled

Ideas, Mike Jones, an engineer at Google explained, were like babies - everything about their environment said 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.

Topics: Baby, Ideas, Google

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