“There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the his...” — Steven Levy Quote

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

“Fast, cheap, abundant broadband is a fantastic economic accelerator, enabling breakout businesses and kick-starting new industries.”

“Microtargeting, as its name implies, is a way to identify small but crucial groups of voters who might be won over to a given side, and which messages would do the trick.”

“There are more clocks than ever - clocks on computers, on cell phones, on televisions, on any screen available, telling time to the digital second - but they all seem to matter less.”

“Educated women armed with computers have defeated extremists by denying them a monopoly to define cultural identity and interpret religious texts. No extremist can say that women are inferior to men without being made a laughingstock on Al Jazeera. Islam insisted on equality between everyone.”

“The whole thought of a career with computers - given that hardly anybody even knew what they were - it wasn't even a concept.”