Google Quotes: Insights and Perspectives on the Tech Giant

"My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

"Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that"

Niklas Zennstrom, Scientist

"The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media"

Eric Schmidt, Businessman

"We want to make sure the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time"

Eric Schmidt, Businessman

"It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing"

John Doerr, Businessman

"Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach"

Jesse James Garrett, Businessman

"There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin"

Michael Shermer, Writer

"We want Google to be the third half of your brain"

Sergey Brin, Businessman

"Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine"

Sergey Brin, Businessman

"Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine"

Sergey Brin, Businessman

"I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet"

Joichi Ito, Businessman