“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
“With the support and cross-pollination of ideas and talent at a place like Facebook, we hope to create an even more exciting future for Instagram and Facebook alike.”
Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom, on selling out his photo-sharing service’s 30 million users to a company best known for its creative ideas about privacy, Instagram Blog, 9 April 2012
“I have always believed that technology should do the hard work—discovery, organization, communication—so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers!”
Google CEO Larry Page—the same Larry Page who once stated his preference for messing with his PDA to looing at IAC CEO Barry Diller in a meeting—in a letter to investors posted on Google.com, 5 April 2012
“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
“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
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