author steven levy spent two years inside google, conducting hundreds of interviews for his latest book "in the plex: how google thinks, works and shapes our lives." levy has also written about apple twice, once about the mac, once about the ipod. seven books overall. his first book is perhaps his most famous. while steven levy did not invent the word "hacker" he, more than any other person, is responsible for the word's meaning. steven levy is senior writer at "wired" magazine, joined by john schwartz of "u.s.a. today," and joseph mend of the "financial times." who i should point out, both of you also wrote books about hacking in your case it was "zero day threat." and john, you were this last week involved in something involving google. we're going to get to that in a little bit. but in the meantime, let me start with you, steven levy and talk about google. as a company. wall street always wants to know this. they always ask this -- i'm going to ask it again. but i want it on a third-grader level. if google finds what i'm looking for through math and we had a guest recently, why do th

to communication but the absence don't really fit in the picture us based radio host and author steven levy men tells our team russia's concerns on the u.s. missile defense system may be well founded but here is so cold air missile defense system is not a defense it's not part of this which will need as i understand this is a lot of the system is an attack system and where it has money speciously in this close to russia's border is a big one worry deep interest russia's response before they even do we simply inflict as much damage as possible but again i scratch my head of ac is it possible that i'm very inconsistent saying if we want a war with russia basically conceivable there each and every year we have a bunch of lunatics you know places in this country i don't want anything. at the g eight summit world leaders have discussed the arab uprisings with a particular focus on the situation in libya it released a joint statement calling for colonel gadhafi to step down immediately saying he's lost all legitimacy russia has a right to ratchet up pressure on the libyan leader by endorsing the

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. >> williams: steven levy is here a senior writer for "wired" magazine. he's written "how google thinks, works and shapesous lives." it tells the story of google's successes and challenges since it was founded. i'm pleadsed to have him back on this program. welcome. >> thank you. >> rose: here's what's interesting to me most of all, the guiding forces who shape a company like this. i think it was marisa meyer who said there's something to be said about the fact that both sergei and larry were montessori kids. >> right. >> what does that mean? >> well, i'm reading a book by maria montessori, the great master of that free-style education to understand that better and it does fit larry and sergei who both indeed had montessori training. it's something that has you question authority and you pursue what you're passionate about. the idea of montessori is you'll learn better if you're learning what you're excited about. and that's the way they operate that. if you look at google's history after search the projects they've gone to are things they've gravitated t