“If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-back ed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces - forever.” IfsWantHumansFacesVisionForeverImagineGlassesGoogleVacantHuman FacesVisions Of The FutureGoogle Glass Author:Julian Assange
“It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing.” RunningGrowingStageDevelopmentLosingMaking MoneyGoogleSiteScientismStages Of Development Author:John Doerr
“The University of Google is where I got my degree from.” DegreesUniversityGoogle Author:Jenny McCarthy
“The fact is, when you look at the best teams—like the ones that existed at Toyota or 3M when Takeuchi or Nonaka wrote their paper, or the ones at Google or Salesforce.com or Amazon today—there isn’t this separation of roles.” LooksFactsTodayRolesTeamPaperSeparationGoogleAmazonBest TeamToyota Author:Jeff Sutherland
“I thought of the idea of Summly in March or April 2011. I was 15 years old and I was revising for some kind of history exam. The problem was I was trying to find information that was useful to me. When you type into Google an esoteric term, you get quite a lot of stuff that's not relevant.” TryingYearsKindIdeasProblemStuffTermInformationTypeMarchRelevantGoogleAprilExamEsotericRevising Author:Nick D'Aloisio
“Google Plus gives you the opportunity to be yourself, and gives Google that common understanding of who you are.” GivingOpportunityUnderstandingCommonWho You AreBeing YourselfPlusGoogle Author:Bradley Horowitz
“With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.” PeopleYearsFeelingsAnswersKnowingStartingSensationsGoogleNostalgicBurn OutClueless Author:Douglas Coupland
“The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.” NamesTermInternetSupposed To BeMathematicalGoogle Author:Sergey Brin
“The prime reason the Google homepage is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn't know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. In fact, it was noted that the SUBMIT button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.” KnowsWayLongReasonFactsWantedKeysReturnInternetLong TimeDuesPrimeSubmitHittingFoundersButtonsGoogleInterfacesHtml Author:Marissa Mayer
“I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so a competitive landscape is good for consumers, developers, and the platforms alike. Apple brings a smooth elegance to its devices and platform, with the best marketplace experience to boot. Google brings a higher volume of devices as well as a more diverse ecosystem to interact with. The real story here is that Microsoft is nowhere to be seen, ending a two-decade monopoly and creating biggest opportunity for software startups probably ever.” BelieveWellsTwoRealStoriesOpportunityI BelieveTalkingSupportHigherCreatingDecadesBillionsPlentyConsumersLandscapeApplesDevicesSoftwareBootsPlatformsDiverseVolumeGoogleSmoothEleganceMonopolyMarketplaceMicrosoftIphoneEcosystemsDevelopersAndroidsReal Story Author:Aaron Levie
“I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened.” WorldCountryMomentsRunningKidsParentBreakInternetGoogleIpods Author:Thomas Friedman
“Mobile use is growing faster than all of Google's internal predictions.” UseGrowingPhonesFasterInternalsGooglePredictionsMobile Author:Eric Schmidt
“We at Google have made tremendous advances in understanding language. Our knowledge graph has been fundamental to that. The new algorithm that we launched today called Hummingbird has been a great leap forward.” Has BeensMadeTodayLanguageUnderstandingFundamentalsMarketingLeapGoogleDigital MarketingAlgorithmsHummingbirdsGraphs Author:Amit Singhal
“Let's say a startup is hot. It ships something great, and it achieves success. Thus, it's able to attract the best, brightest, and most talented. These people have been told they're the best since childhood. Indeed, being hired by the hot company is "proof" that they are the A and A+ players; in fact, the company is so hot that it can out-recruit Google and Microsoft.” PeopleHas BeensFactsAbleSuccessCompanyPlayerChildhoodAchieveHotProofShipsGoogleMicrosoftRecruit Author:Guy Kawasaki
“Anyone who thinks that wind factories are environmentally friendly should Google "Cefn Croes Photo Gallery", to see 100 chilling pictures showing how many miles of unspoiled Welsh countryside were disfigured to create the largest industrial site in Britain: all to "save" annually less than a quarter of the CO₂ emissions from a single jumbo jet.” ThinkingShouldWindMilesBritainFriendlyQuartersFactoriesGoogleSiteChillGalleryJetEmissionsCountrysideWelshEnvironmentally FriendlyWind Farms Author:Christopher Booker
“The financial crisis just made the hole deeper, which is why our stimulus needs to be both big and smart, both financially and educationally stimulating. It needs to be able to produce not only more shovel-ready jobs and shovel-ready workers, but more Google-ready jobs and Windows-ready and knowledge-ready workers.” NeedsMadeBigsAbleJobsScienceProduceReadySmartWindowCrisisWorkersFinancialDeeperMathHolesGoogleStimulusFinancial CrisisShovels Author:Thomas Friedman
“Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So I'm thinking that maybe we'll have a future where Google is 'xkcd.'” ThinkingIdeasComicFeaturesGoogleYoutube Author:Randall Munroe
“Google is my rapid response research assistant. It's the Swiss Army knife of information retrieval.” InformationResearchArmyResponseKnivesGoogleRapidsAssistantsSwissSwiss Army Knives Author:Lloyd Grove
“I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future.” WishPartnersApplesGoogle Author:Steve Wozniak
“We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.” ThinkingShouldStillsStoriesMovingOpportunityBuildingBoringDespiteFasterRelativeNegativityGoogle Author:Larry Page
“Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the Web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. We're nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we work on.” GivingWould BeWantedUltimateVersionsRight ThingArtificial IntelligenceEnginesArtificialGoogleSearch Engine Author:Larry Page
“Google will fulfill its mission only when its search engine is AI-complete. You guys know what that means? That's artificial intelligence.” KnowsMeanGuyMissionsArtificial IntelligenceEnginesArtificialGoogleSearch Engine Author:Larry Page
“Public art is ephemeral by nature. Google 's new project not only catalogs an artist's work but archives it and allows people to see the art long after it has disappeared.” PeopleLongArtArtistProjectsArt IsGoogleEphemeralArchivesNew ProjectsPublic Art Author:Shepard Fairey
“Google’s objective is to organize the world’s information and to make it accessible. Unicode plays a central role in this effort because it is the principal means by which content in every language can be represented in a form that can be processed by software. As Unicode extends its coverage of the world’s languages, it helps Google accomplish its mission.” WorldMeanPlayHelpingFormLanguageEffortRolesInformationAccomplishMissionsObjectivesSoftwarePrincipalGoogleOrganizeCoverage Author:Vinton Cerf
“My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures.” MindKeysGoogle Author:Temple Grandin
“We are a consumer company and our success is directly linked to our users trusting us. Therefore we have the same incentive as the user: they want to see relevant advertising so their experience of Google is positive and we want to deliver it.” WantCompanyAdvertisingConsumersRelevantUsersGoogleLinkedIncentives Author:Susan Wojcicki
“Let's face it: Engineering companies in general have more men than women. Google has tried really hard to recruit women. On the other hand, we have a standard. Google tries to recruit the best engineers.” MenTryingHardHandsFacesCompanyStandardsEngineeringEngineersGoogleRecruit Author:Susan Wojcicki
“But to value every company as if they are the next Google, rather than valuing them all as if one of them might be, is pretty much the definition of a bubble.” IfsMightValuesNextCompanyDefinitionsBubblesGoogle Author:Tim Worstall
“There have been women who stumbled across Feministing randomly, through a bizarre Google search or something, and had no idea what feminism was. They thought it was something older women do, or bought into the hairy bra-burning man-hating stereotype 100 percent. Anything that deviates from that is very exciting for them.” MenHas BeensIdeasHateFeminismPercentExcitingBurningNo IdeaGoogleStereotypeBizarreBrasOlder WomenDeviateMan HatingGoogle SearchBurning Man Author:Jessica Valenti
“I would much rather have 1,000 visitors click over to my website via a podcast interview that I’ve done on someone else’s website than have 1,000 search result visitors from Google. Anyday.” DoneResultsInterviewsGoogleWebsiteClicksVisitors Author:Chris Ducker
“I am about as pro-Google a person as you're going to find in the media. I've had friends at all levels of the company since its founding, and still do now.” PersonsStillsLevelsCompanyMediaGoogleFounding Author:James Fallows
“I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can be hacked from afar.” TwoStepsBeatsAccountsGoogleAfarLikelihoodHacked Author:James Fallows
“The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google's evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like.” IfsWayFeelingsDesignReaderLuckyDelightTricksEvolveLogicalUsersGoogleRemindersAstonishingDemiseHow Far We've Come Author:James Fallows
“Click-throughs on a video are often much higher than a standard website listing on the front page of Google. If you see a video in the Google results... it stands out a lot more than a regular website listing does, so [it] tends to attract more clicks.” IfsDoeResultsFrontsHigherPagesStandardsMarketingVideoGoogleStanding OutWebsiteClicks Author:Matthew Carter
“History shows fans want consolidation; you see it across the web every place. The big players are people like Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook.” PeopleWantShowsBigsPlayerFansGoogleAmazonEbayConsolidation Author:Irving Azoff
“Google is about information and computers and making things really fast. Facebook is about the sharing and connections. These missions give these companies direction and motivation.” GivingMotivationCompanyInformationComputerConnectionsMissionsGoogle Author:Paul Buchheit
“Google and Facebook, each in their own way, have revolutionized the delivery of advertising based on search and social networking, creating a sort of anti-Spam: targeted, relevant ads that a consumer might actually welcome rather than spurn.” WayMightSocialCreatingWelcomeAdvertisingConsumersRelevantAdsGoogleNetworkingDeliverySocial NetworkingSocial NetworkSpam Author:Marcus Buckingham
“I didn't know that there was such a thing as butter carving. But then, I poked around a little bit. A quick Google search will show you 55,000 images of butter carvings, and they're extraordinary.” KnowsLittlesShowsBitsLittle BitExtraordinaryGoogleCarvingGoogle Search Author:Ty Burrell
“The more angels we have in Silicon Valley, the better. We are funding innovation. We are funding the next Facebook, Google, and Twitter.” NextAngelInnovationValleysGoogleFundingSiliconSilicon Valley Author:Ron Conway
“To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.” StillsNumbersFunctionSurpriseDespiteGoogleSiteExplosions Author:Robert Cailliau
“Google and others truncate headlines at 70 characters. On the Manti Teo story, Deadspin's scoop fell down the Google search results, overtaken by copycat stories with simpler headlines. Deadspin's headline was 118 characters. Vital information - 'hoax' - was one of the words that was cut off.” CharacterStoriesResultsCuttingInformationGoogleHeadlinesHoaxesCopycatsGoogle Search Author:Nick Denton
“If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die.” IfsFactsDiesThreeCausesNumbersTypeDiseaseThirdsCancerSmokingAffectedOddsGoogleLungsNever EndingLung CancerLeading CausesGoogle Search Author:Matthew Gray Gubler
“Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn't. Today, it's probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say - shift happens.” Has BeensHappensTodayModernNeededLateResearchToo LateGooglePalmsOperating SystemsAndroidsNokiaOverpaying Author:Marc Andreessen
“The founders of Snapchat last year turned down a $3 billion offer from Facebook and a $4 billion offer from Google. It was a surprising show of integrity from the guys who invented the app that lets you look at pictures of boobs for five seconds.” YearsLooksShowsLastsGuyTechnologyFiveIntegrityOffersBillionsSecondsSurprisingLast YearFoundersGoogleAppsTurned DownSnapchat Author:Cecily Strong
“Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.” ImportantPositionInternetImportant ThingsTargetGooglePrecedentLawsuit Author:Joichi Ito
“In my view, it’s irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.” AbilityViewsSunFoolishPersistenceApplesGoogleOpen MindMicrosoftOpen MindedOpen MindednessNaivetyEbayIrreverence Author:Vinod Khosla