“Google totally slimed Sun.”
Java inventor James Gosling, on Google’s liberal use of the programming language for its Android operating system, Wired, 30 April 2012
Tag: Google
WE’RE STILL BETTING ON OLD NESSIE
“Just like the Loch Ness Monster, you may have heard the rumors about Google Drive. It turns out, one of the two actually does exist.”
Google executive Sundar Pichai, on the company’s bizarrely overdue Web file-storage offering, Official Google Blog, 24 April 2012
FIRST!
“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 WERE HOPING FOR YOUR FIRSTBORN
“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
DON’T BE EMAIL
“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
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