Google famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Why bother with Google when I have a wife who knows everything about everything!
-- Akshay Kumar -
In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, "Yes, of course they have, they've thought of it!"
-- Al Yankovic -
Now kids, don't believe everything you find on the Internet just because it showed up first in your Google search results.
-- Albert Einstein -
Porting a Google App Engine app written in Python to Go: Although I'm new to Go I get much quicker results than I've got with Python. Never used a language before that empowers you to solve problems as quick as Go does
-- Aleksandr Mikhailovich Orlov -
We had to google the lyrics to our own song
-- Alex Gaskarth -
Google is so strange. It promises everything, but everything isn’t there. You type in the words for what you need, and what you need becomes superfluous in an instant, shadowed instantaneously by the things you really need, and none of them answerable by Google.
-- Ali Smith -
I did Google him, you know." "Oh, so you GOOGLED him Oh, well, that changes everything then, doesn't it? What could I possibly worry about now that I know you've conducted such a thorough Internet search?
-- Alyson Noel -
The destiny of [Google's search engine] is to become that Star Trek computer, and that's what we are building.
-- Amit Singhal -
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.
-- Amit Singhal -
You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.
-- Amy Chua -
If you are friends with the wrong people, Google+ autocorrects them
-- Andy Borowitz -
The Internet, and Google, and everything that goes along with that is awesome for some things, but not so awesome for other things. Because everything gets leaked nowadays.
-- Anneliese van der Pol -
One of the missions of Google[x] is to use technology to get technology out of the way
-- Astro Teller -
Google everything. I mean everything. Google your dreams, Google your problems. Don’t ask a question before you Google it. You’ll either find the answer or you’ll come up with a better question.
-- Austin Kleon -
Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will always choose a spartan webpage that converts over a beautiful page that doesn't have the data to back it up.
-- Ben Parr -
If Google teaches you anything, it's that small ideas can be big.
-- Ben Silbermann -
I hate all the old pictures of me before 2010 - and they are always the first ones to come up. That's why I don't Google myself, man.
-- Big Sean -
Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that's quality software!
-- Bjarne Stroustrup -
One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
-- Bob Brown -
What happens when you combine blogs, Google and millions of dissatisfied customers? An e-mob.
-- Bob Garfield -
Do you feel blame? Are you mad? Uh, do you feel like wolf kabob Roth vantage? Gefrannis booj pooch boo jujube; bear-ramage. Jigiji geeji geeja geeble Google. Begep flagaggle vaggle veditch-waggle bagga?
-- Charles Manson -
If I could edit Google Images, then I wouldn't be as scared of the Internet.
-- Chloe Sevigny -
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.
-- Chris Ducker -
I Google everyone I meet and I look up designers.
-- Christian Siriano -
When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn't do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites.
-- Christopher Dodd -
Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?
-- Colson Whitehead -
The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead; ask about the scale of their dreams - their Apple-, Google-, Amazon-scale dreams - how they measure their progress toward those dreams, and what resources they need to make them come true, regardless of what the overhead is.
-- Dan Pallotta -
My parents have Google Alerts on me. So they'll often times send me an e-mail and be like, 'Hey did you know this?' And then I'll be like, 'Well, it is, like, my life. So yes, I did know that.' Or, 'That's not even true. I don't know where you read that.' I have Googled myself, yes. But my parents really have Google Alerts on me.
-- Dane DeHaan -
Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.
-- Daniel H. Wilson -
People won't start dumping Google en masse; Google is a habit.
-- David Pogue -
Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.
-- David Ulevitch -
You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things.
-- Douglas Coupland -
In spite of my own reservations about Bing's ability to convert Google users, I have to admit that the search engine does offer a genuine alternative to Google-style browsing, a more coherently organized selection of links, and a more advertiser-friendly environment through which to sell space and links.
-- Douglas Rushkoff -
For Google, the problem with being a free, abundant, and rather infinite set of services is that it's hard to create much of a stir about anything. There are so many major software service options under the 'more' menu on the Gmail page that they've had to go and add a final item called 'even more.'
-- Douglas Rushkoff -
Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing hardware and software so that formerly daunting computers and applications could become consumer-friendly devices - even a lifestyle brand.
-- Douglas Rushkoff -
Google is in a position where it doesn't even have to strive to become a hip, conscious choice. Brands are temporary fads. Functionality is forever. Google just has to 'be,' and everyone will end up there sooner or later.
-- Douglas Rushkoff -
The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google.
-- Edward Felten -
Whether it's Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that they themselves have revealed to the companies is not baked into how the companies work. But it's bigger than privacy. Privacy is about what you're willing to reveal about yourself.
-- Eli Pariser -
I used to Google my name to see what came up - it hurt.
-- Emilio Estevez -
Well, come back and have tea with us," saidMoon-Face. "Silky's got some Pop Biscuits -andI've made some Google Buns. I don't often makethem-and I tell you they're a treat!
-- Enid Blyton -
Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.
-- Eric Schmidt -
Google’s vision is tools that will do things for you.
-- Evgeny Morozov -
In Google's world, public space is just something that stands between your house and the well-reviewed restaurant that you are dying to get to.
-- Evgeny Morozov -
In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict.
-- Evgeny Morozov -
Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable.
-- Evgeny Morozov -
A lot of the geeks in Silicon Valley will tell you they no longer believe in the ability of policymakers in Washington to accomplish anything. They don't understand why people end up in politics; they would do much more good for the world if they worked at Google or Facebook.
-- Evgeny Morozov -
Speech at the Ministerial Conference in Boston
-- Ezra Stiles -
Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace.
-- Fred Wilson -
The great thing about Google is that you type in neuro-surgery and somehow you end up with Peter Sellers or watching Frank Sinatra. Google is a great resource.
-- Gary Oldman -
Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.
-- George Packer -
Google will make us more informed. The smartest person in the world could well be behind a plow in China or India. Providing universal access to information will allow such people to realize their full potential, providing benefits to the entire world.
-- Hal Varian -
[We need to] protect copyright at all costs. Don't do cheap deals with Google and these other cyber-monsters. Recognize that the creative artist has to be maintained.
-- Harold Evans -
And I love the people there. Sergey Brin and Larry Page are cool. But I'm terrified of the next generation that takes over. A benevolent dictatorship is still a dictatorship. At some point people are going to realize that Google has everything on everyone. Most of all, they can see what questions you're asking, in real time. Quite literally, they can read your mind.
-- Jacob Appelbaum -
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.
-- 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.
-- James Fallows -
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.
-- James Fallows -
Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.
-- James Gleick -
During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle, where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer's eyes sparkle.
-- James Gosling -
Don't forget that SlideShare is indexed by Google. Great opportunity to appear in search results.
-- Jason Miller -
The University of Google is where I got my degree from.
-- Jenny McCarthy -
When Yelp first took off, our rankings on Google would fluctuate wildly.
-- Jeremy Stoppelman -
Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach.
-- Jesse James Garrett -
The best businesses adopt a similar approach to Google. They are consistently looking for ways to improve what they do.
-- Jim Connolly -
I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked myself from looking at the major newspaper sites and Google News because I wasn't getting any work done.
-- Jimmy Wales -
The only thing Google has failed to do, so far, is fail.
-- John Battelle -
Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.
-- John Battelle -
It's become something of a ritual - every year, Google publishes its year-end summary of what the world wants, and every year I complain about how shallow it is, given what Google really knows about what the world is up to.
-- John Battelle -
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.
-- John Doerr -
One of my favorite ways to easily review results is Google Analytics Dashboards. Don't have dashboards set up? I can help you set one up.
-- John Tukey -
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.
-- Joichi Ito -
science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you.
-- Jonathan Haidt -
If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-back ed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces - forever.
-- Julian Assange -
Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.
-- Julian Baggini -
People here will date goats. But no one wants to date a goat wearing Google glass.
-- Kara Swisher -
If you Google 'regret and tattoo,' you will get 11.5 million hits.
-- Kathryn Schulz -
An important reason Google is usually listed among the world's most trusted brands is that it conveys a sense that the user comes first.
-- Ken Auletta -
When you make a decision, you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they're at your fingertips. If they're all in Google somewhere, you may not make the right decision on the spur of the moment.
-- Ken Jennings -
I'm not big on looking up myself. I don't get Google alerts, and I don't look on blogs.
-- Khloe Kardashian -
I tell people, 'I have a Ph.D. from Google University.
-- Kris Carr -
When you can literally Google anything, you don't feel like you have to go see it in person. You can do a lot of traveling in your bedroom, but you're not touching anything and you're not feeling it.
-- Kristen Stewart -
One percent of the equity, 1 percent of the profits, and 1 percent of the people go into Google.org. The most important asset isn't money, it's people. One percent of the people means 60 or 70 of the smartest people in the world trying to solve some of the biggest problems in the world.
-- Larry Brilliant -
As we transition from one screen to multiscreens, Google has enormous opportunities to innovate and drive ever higher monetization. Just like Search in 2000.
-- Larry Page -
We understand the need to balance our short- and longer-term needs because our revenue is the engine that funds all our innovation. But over time, our emerging high-usage products will likely generate significant new revenue streams for Google as well as for our partners, just as search does today.
-- 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.
-- 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.
-- Larry Page -
You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.
-- Larry Page -
Every story I read about Google is about us vs some other company, or something else, and I really don't find that interesting. We should be building great things that don't exist. Being negative is not how we make progress.
-- Larry Page -
I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus.
-- Larry Page -
Xiaomi looks a bit like Apple but is really more like Amazon with some elements of Google.
-- Lei Jun -
Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit can aspire, and neither is competitiveness in a global economy. The character of our society cannot be determined by engineers.
-- Leon Wieseltier
