“I think the Android differences were actually for show. I had a relationship with Steve.”
Google CEO Larry Page, dismissing the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s threats of “thermonuclear war” over Google’s slavishly imitative iPhone knockoffs, BusinessWeek, 4 April 2012
“Though each case raises slightly different issues, the question they ultimately pose is whether Google is doing anything to choke off competition or hurt our users and partners. This is not the case.”
Google lawyer Julia Holtz, on antitrust complaints against her employer, Google European Public Policy Blog, 24 February 2010
“Your phone is your omnipresent microphone to the world, a way to publish pictures, emails, texts, Twitters, and blog entries.”
Google wireless guru Andy Rubin, on how the Android operating system will enable bad cell-phone behavior in every conceivable medium, Official Google Blog, 19 September 2008
“So what’s our straightforward definition of the ideal search engine? Your best friend with instant access to all the world’s facts and a photographic memory of everything you’ve seen and know.”
Google executive Marissa Mayer, on her company’s ultracreepy future, the Official Google Blog, 10 September 2008
“I want more Internet. I want every one of the 6 billion people on the planet to be able to connect to the Internet — I think they will add things to it that will really benefit us all.”
Google executive and Internet creator Vint Cerf, on the need for more people to post amusing captioned photos of their cats, The Guardian, 27 August 2007
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