Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community. – Mark Zuckerberg
I turned off my Google alerts in 2009 as I learnt that following yourself on the Internet very quickly becomes unhealthy. – Marina and the Diamonds
Larry Page, co-founder of Google, is an unbelievable big thinker, and there was a saying in Google that if you wanted to know the future, go to Larry. – Sebastian Thrun
The more angels we have in Silicon Valley, the better. We are funding innovation. We are funding the next Facebook, Google, and Twitter. – Ron Conway
I’m just more excited about helping new entrepreneurs create the next Facebook or Google. – Paul Buchheit
To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites. – Robert Cailliau
My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google. – Ray Kurzweil
Google X is here to do moonshot-type projects. Not just shooting to the moon, but bringing the moon back to Earth. – Sebastian Thrun
If we want to take a bunch of phrases and run them through a Google and say ‘Hey, who else has said them,’ I can come up with the list in five minutes. – Sean Spicer
I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction. – Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Google is the enemy. I would tell that to anyone who enjoys any TV show like ‘Game of Thrones’ to avoid it; it spoils so many storylines. – Richard Madden
Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature – which they actually took seriously and implemented. So I’m thinking that maybe we’ll have a future where Google is ‘xkcd.’ – Randall Munroe
I didn’t know that there was such a thing as butter carving. But then, I poked around a little bit. A quick Google search will show you 55,000 images of butter carvings, and they’re extraordinary. – Ty Burrell
People read things on Google, and they have these perceptions, these misconceived perceptions of who you are. At times that hurts, because they really don’t know who I am. – Scott Weiland
When I do appearances and stuff and I just wanna see the new pictures, I Google myself. – Teyana Taylor
People used to say that advertising wasn’t in Google’s DNA, and that’s obviously not true anymore. They used to say that display advertising isn’t in Google’s DNA, and that’s not true any more. – Susan Wojcicki
You can get pictures into what people are sort of thinking about others. Just go onto Google and type ‘Why are Indians’ and then look for the autocomplete. – Sendhil Mullainathan
Several authoritarian regimes reportedly propose to ban anonymity from the web, making it easier to find and arrest dissidents. At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led net crackdown. We operate in about 150 countries around the globe. – Vint Cerf
Google+ will never have a user base to rival Facebook’s. It just won’t. Not even if you include the ‘users’ who create accounts so that they can use other Google services. – Shawn Amos
I have a calendar life that is complicated, so I use BusyCal and Google Calendar. I keep two different browsers open to avoid some confusion. – Steve Wozniak
Perhaps the most damaging aspect of the Obamacare tech nightmare is how wholly predictable it all was. Anyone who has been involved in building the most rudimentary of web operations knows nothing ever works as it’s supposed to. Even awesome Apple, mighty Microsoft, and gargantuan Google miss deadlines. – Tina Brown
