American - Journalist | 1951 -
The myth of the peachfuzz billionaire has emerged. This new Horatio Alger typically launches his first start-up in middle school, and somewhere between the campus computer-science lab and a move to Palo Alto hacks up a Web site where users provide fun or useful content.
Steven Levy
SchoolFunNewFirstContentMiddle
This paradox of vision - the genius of youthful ignorance - is nothing new. Had Bill Gates not been in diapers in the early days of computer software, he might have understood that there could never be a market for consumer software - but the 19-year-old Gates went ahead and cofounded Microsoft.
VisionIgnoranceGeniusEarlyNew
Technology writers are seldom subject to frenzied, Beatlemania-esque paroxysms of public attention. June 29, 2007, was the exception. I was in the wrong place - Apple's Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan - with the right device. The iPhone.
TechnologyAttentionApplePlace
Apple's iPod success led them to believe an even bigger breakthrough was possible with the iPhone. In some respects, the iPhone hype overwhelmed even Apple.
SuccessBelieveApplePossibleHype
Is it possible for Apple or anyone else to rule in the mobile realm the way Microsoft did on the desktop? The way to do this is to go mass-market with a device that can do anything the others can do.
AppleGoWayPossibleOthersRule
In the history of U.S. elections, the fall of 2000 is notorious for the debacle that occurred in the country's attempt to elect a president that year.
HistoryYearFallCountryPresident
Facebook has never been shy about its ambitions.
ShyNeverFacebookBeenAbout
Who wants to broadcast the news that he's bought a can of Sprite? And who wants to see that on a News Feed?
NewsSeeFeedWhoHeWants
Everyone in the tech business, from Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist John Doerr on down, says that the ruination of the industry, if not the entire country, will come from the inability to hire more brainiacs from countries like China and India.
BusinessDownCountryIndiaWill
Right after the keynote in which Steve Jobs introduced the iPod Shuffle, I went backstage with one question in mind: What makes an iPod an iPod? By then - January 11, 2005 - I had staked my own claim to iPod expertise, having written a 'Newsweek' cover story about Apple's transformational music player, and I was writing a book on it.
MusicJanuaryMindWritingBook
My favorite thing to do with my iPod was to shuffle my entire music collection and marvel at what songs came next. Sometimes the segues would be so perfect that it seemed a genius deejay was behind the wheel.
MusicGeniusPerfectSometimesWheel
The iPod Shuffle was something unique for Apple: a device stripped down to a single function.
UniqueAppleDownSingleSomething
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Steven Levy quotes