Google Quotes

“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
― Neil Gaiman

“[Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively]
"Don't they teach you anything in your schools?"
"Not about this."
"Pity. I suppose that's what comes of your main education flowing from Google.”
― Rachel Caine, Feast of Fools

“You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“I googled “what to do when your future werewolf mate / boyfriend /best friend courts you and brings you a dead rabbit.”

First, there was a lot of porn. Then I found a recipe for Maltese rabbit stew. It was delicious. The stew, not the porn. The porn was weird.    ”
― T.J. Klune, Wolfsong

“If you can spell "Nietzsche" without Google, you deserve a cookie.”
― Lauren Leto

“I had been hobbled, perhaps even crippled by a pervasive internet society I had come to depend on and take for granted... hit enter and let Google, that twenty-first century Big Brother, take care of the rest.

In the Derry of 1958, the most up-to-date computers were the size of small housing developments, and the local paper was no help. What did that leave? I remembered a sociology prof I’d had in college - a sarcastic old bastard - who used to say, When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“I did Google him, you know."
"Oh, so you GOOGLED him Oh, well, that changes everything then, doesn't it? What could I possibly worry about now that I know you've conducted such a thorough Internet search?”
― Alyson Noel, Fated

“In the Information Age, the first step to sanity is FILTERING. Filter the information: extract for knowledge.

Filter first for substance. Filter second for significance. These filters protect against advertising.

Filter third for reliability. This filter protects against politicians.

Filter fourth for completeness. This filter protects against the media.”
― Marc Stiegler, David's Sling

“All of a sudden, we’ve lost a lot of control,’ he said. ‘We can’t turn off our internet; we can’t turn off our smartphones; we can’t turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it’s not God…”
― Steve Wozniak

“My Google-fu is strong.”
― China Miéville, Kraken

“Google dress code was: "You must wear something".”
― Eric Schmidt, How Google Works

“I wondered and I prayed and I Googled.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions

“God bless this encyclopedic Mr. Google, whoever he was.”
― Jason Heller, Taft 2012

“Well, this was disappointing. I supposed I had jumped to a rather large conclusion, with the help of my research. It just went to show that Wikipedia was a liar and Google a whore.”
― Maggie Stiefvater

“Trivia are not knowledge. Lists of facts don't comprise knowledge. Analyzing, hypothesizing, concluding from data, sharing insights, those comprise knowledge. You can't google for knowledge.”
― Elaine Chaika

“America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.”
― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

“I killed the Google Alert I used to have on myself two years ago. I don’t need any more information about myself. I get more than enough of that just by being me.”
― Lev Grossman

“My guess is (it will be) about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in search.”
― Craig Silverstein (Director of Technology, Google.com)

“We designed Google to be the kind of place where the kind of people we wanted to work here would work for free.
- Urs Hölzle”
― Steven Levy, In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

“You know something is profoundly wrong with our economy when Big Tech has a higher take rate than the mafia.”
― Ritchie Torres

“Ask God, not Google”
― Al Carraway

“I had spent the day before Googling how to kill yourself and how to kill yourself the easiest and how to kill yourself the fastest and when you start to kill yourself do you want to change your mind? but the thing is, when you Google things like that, you won't get answers the way it normally works. You will instead get numbers to hotlines and therapists and articles with lists about why you should stay alive.

So of course I was scared.”
― Kaleena Madruga, Does It Hurt?

“The blessing of Google is its uncanny skill in finding what you're looking for; the curse is that it so rarely finds any of those lovely odd things you're -not- looking for. For that pleasure, it seems, we need -books.-

(Bran Flakes and Harmless Drudges)”
― Alan Jacobs, Wayfaring: Essays Pleasant and Unpleasant

“One of the curiosities of the early twenty-first century is the way so much power over social relations came into the hands of young men with more interest in numbers than in people.”
― Nicholas Carr, Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

“There is discrimination, and the opportunities are not equal to everyone. Most countries are blocked from using several crucial features on Google, Amazon, Shopify, AliExpress, and many more platforms that the "internet millionaires" use to get all of their wealth. They are not smarter than you! They simply have access to markets that are blocked to you! When you try to compete inside their markets, the domain owners alter the algorithms to favor people in that geolocation and put them and their products in front of your. I have been stopped from uploading books for no other reason than being in east Europe. People don't believe these stories are true because they don't want to believe they are living in such a world. It's like the story of the Native Americans, who were offered blankets contaminated with diseases to kill them. Now you are being offered a blanket of illusions that gives you lies. And when you say the truth, they call it a conspiracy and hate speech.”
― Dan Desmarques

“User comfort matters, and Bronva's design reflects this belief. Drawing inspiration from the familiar interfaces of Google and Bing, we provide a seamless transition for users. It's about offering a new, privacy-focused search experience without sacrificing ease of use.”
― James William Steven Parker

“In his 1993 book Technopoly, Neil Postman distilled the main tenets of Taylor’s system of scientific management. Taylorism, he wrote, is founded on six assumptions: “that the primary, if not the only, goal of human labor and thought is efficiency; that technical calculation is in all respects superior to human judgment; that in fact human judgment cannot be trusted, because it is plagued by laxity, ambiguity, and unnecessary complexity; that subjectivity is an obstacle to clear thinking; that what cannot be measured either does not exist or is of no value; and that the affairs of citizens are best guided and conducted by experts.”11 What’s remarkable is how well Postman’s summary encapsulates Google’s own intellectual ethic. Only one tweak is required to bring it up to date. Google doesn’t believe that the affairs of citizens are best guided by experts. It believes that those affairs are best guided by software algorithms—which is exactly what Taylor would have believed had powerful digital computers been around in his day.”
― Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

“Sundar Pichai's ability to foster rapid innovation while maintaining such a sense of calm is truly remarkable”
― Daniel Vincent Kramer

“Stay branded! Stay alive!! Stay visible!!!”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, Your Clients and You

“Well it's not possible to win this kind of thing. This is a continuous striving that people have done for a long time. Of course, there is many individual battles that we win, but it is the nature of human beings that human beings lie and cheat and deceive and organized groups of people who do not lie and cheat and deceive find each other and get together... and because they have that temperament, are more efficient. Because they are not lying and cheating and deceiving each other. And that is an old, a very old struggle between opportunists and collaborators. And so I don't see that going away. I think we can make some significant advances and it is perhaps, it is the making of these advances and being involved in that struggle that is good for people. So the process is in part the end game. It's not just to get somewhere in the end, rather this process of people feeling that it is worthwhile to be involved in that sort of struggle, is in fact worthwhile for people.”
― Julian Assange, When Google Met Wikileaks