Digerati say the cutest things.
“We had been working on Android a very long time, with the notion of producing phones that are Internet enabled and have good browsers and all that because that did not exist in the marketplace. I think that characterization of us entering after is not really reasonable.”
Google cofounder Larry Page, longwindedly disputing Apple’s claim that Google’s Android army was a response to the iPhone, Reuters, 9 July 2010
“We’ve seen cities rename themselves, great YouTube videos, public rallies and hundreds of grassroots Facebook groups come to life, all with the goal of bringing ultra high-speed broadband to their communities.”
Google product manager James Kelly, on the more than 190,000 sacrificial offerings he and his fellow Googler deities have received from supplicant communities praying at the altar of broadband, Official Google Blog, 26 March 2010
“I’m going to make a deliberate effort to respond as little as possible to outside work-related emails.”
Google Web-spam czar Matt Cutts, on his 30-day experiment in making the search engine even less human, MattCutts.com, 23 March 2010
“Our objection is to those forces of totalitarianism.”
Google cofounder Sergey Brin, on moving his Chinese search engine from the mainland to Hong Kong, while continuing to maintain an iron grip on the online identities of users worldwide, Bits, 22 March 2010
“Concentrate all of our efforts in building up numbers as aggressively as we can through whatever tactics, however evil.”
YouTube cofounder Steve Chen in 2006, on how he inflated YouTube to a $1.65 billion sale to Google, in an email revealed in a Viacom court filing, MediaMemo, 18 March 2010
