Troublemakers Quotes

“When a really difficult thing is being worked on and you get synergy from the small team in just the right way, you can’t describe it. It’s like love. It is love,” says Alan Kay, a visionary computer scientist who worked at Xerox PARC, Apple, and Atari. “You’re trying to nurture this thing that is not alive into being alive.” 18”
― Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

“but because in the universe in which Larry Roberts was educated and now lived, it just wasn’t right for a guy with an MIT PhD in engineering to report to a guy with a master’s degree in psychology from the University of Texas.”
― Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

“For the society, the impact will be good or bad, depending mainly on the question: Will ‘to be on line’ be a privilege or a right? If only a favored segment of the population gets a chance to enjoy the advantage of ‘intelligence amplification,’ the network may exaggerate the discontinuity in the spectrum of intellectual opportunity.”
― Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

“book for career women in the late 1970s included a chapter on “What If They Call You a Castrating Bitch”
― Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

“companies assembled products in Asia, often in the Philippines, where wages could be as low as 13 cents per hour.”
― Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

“he justified the discrepancy by saying that the coworker was married with children to support,”
― Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

“She overheard one of her coworkers bragging about his salary—and realized it was twice her own.”
― Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

“Ricky Rat, now called Chuck E. Cheese,”
― Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

“Marketing thought the programmers were lazy; the programmers thought marketing was stupid,”
― Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

“marijuana review board”—committee was “very much part of the creative process” and met on the roof”
― Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

“US senator had asked if it were true that computers “will soon be able to secretly interpret a person’s brainwaves.”
― Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

“businessman’s wife should read and annotate articles for her husband).”
― Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

“The future of video games was still uncertain.”
― Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

“Google included “Don’t be evil” in its code of conduct,”
― Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

“His solution was to add a new claim to cover “a cell.”
― Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

“How hard can it be?” may be the five most foolish words in high technology.)”
― Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

“in 1972, pinball was still illegal in New York and had only recently been legalized in Chicago.”
― Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

“He decided not to try to fix a bug that kept the paddles from reaching the top of the screen,”
― Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

“Palo Alto was fighting its reputation as “the Peninsula’s largest sex-shop center,”
― Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

“What were they building? Alcorn asked. A game you could play on a TV screen. They’re crazy,”
― Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

“Engelbart’s project was way off in weird land,”
― Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

“the “you can’t make me do it” academic culture.”
― Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

“they were persistent, and they were audacious.”
― Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

“The 1960s set much of the tone for Silicon Valley,”
― Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age