“The Google+ app you see out there today is used by hundreds of millions of users…. I don’t want to talk about numbers.”
Google+ chief David Bresbis, showing a very un-Googley aversion to quantifying his social network’s results, Recode, 7 October 2014
“The challenges are substantial, but the opportunity to make Google more collaborative and relevant to users wherever they are is enormous.”
The developers behind Google’s social network, openly admitting they have a problem with relevance, Google+ Developers, 20 March 2013
“We’re getting closer to a world where technology takes care of the hard work—discovery, organization, communication—so that you can get on with what makes you happiest … living and loving.”
Google CEO Larry Page, on how he fired Andy Rubin as Android boss in the name of love, The Official Google Blog, 13 March 2013
“I realized my algorithms were so far from having a snarky detector that this was a better approach.”
Google executive Bradley Horowitz, on the time at Yahoo when he discovered Flickr users were better at tagging photos than his machines, VentureBeat, 22 May 2012
“We continue to talk to Google frequently and on an ongoing basis. They are a company that’s doing several different things right now. Those conversations have a complexity to them that is different than our conversations with the company.”
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, putting the “skate” in “obfuscate” while discussing his former employer, Business Insider, 1 May 2012
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