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“The perfect search engine is the Star Trek computer,” said Larry Page, Google’s chief executive, per FT; 5-15-13

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"Computer science has a marketing problem… We're the nerdy curmudgeons — I don't know about you — but that's what I am." Google CEO Larry Page on computer scientists and himself, at Google’s I/O developers conference; per NBC News

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“The ‘Star Trek’ computer shouldn’t just answer questions, it should make you more intelligent, should anticipate what you expect next,” said Amit Singhal, senior vice president for search at Google; per NYT Bits Blog; 5-15-13

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“We should be building great things that don’t exist. Being negative isn’t how we make progress.” Google CEO Larry Page at Google’s I/O developers conference, 5-15-13; per All Things Digital

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“I think as technologists we can have some safe spaces where we can try out some new things and figure out what is the effect it has on society and what is its effect on people without having to deploy it into the normal world. ... And we don’t have mechanisms for that,” [“he said, using Burning Man — an annual weeklong retreat in the desert of Nevada — as an example of”] “an environment where people can try out new things, but not everybody has to go.” Google CEO Larry Page at Google’s I/O developers conference, 5-15-13 per The Hill

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“There are many exciting, important things that we can do that we can’t do because they’re illegal and they’re not allowed by regulation. And that makes sense — we don’t want our morals to change too fast,” Google CEO Larry Page at Google’s I/O developers conference, 5-15-13 per The Hill

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“[We] respect the interaction between the digital world and the real world more. Again, people at Google and certainly myself assume that we can just sort of do what we think is right but in fact the other organizations will react, and we spend a lot of time talking about that reaction. And I think the Google that you covered seven or eight years ago wouldn’t have had that conversation. The Google today has that conversation. For example Google Glass [is a] fantastic innovation but we’re also limiting its distribution, we’re studying how it’s going to be used. We’re not just throwing it over the wall the way we did in 2004 or 2005.” Google Chairman, Eric Schmidt, per Marketing land, 5-14-13

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“Well it was invented by Larry and Sergey. And the idea was that we don’t quite know what evil is, but if we have a rule that says don’t be evil, they employees can say, I think that’s evil. Now when I showed up, I thought this was the stupidest rule ever, because there is no book about evil except maybe, you know, the Bible or something.” Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, on Google’s “Don’t be evil” motto, on NPR’s “Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me,” 5-14-13

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“We’re not scanning all those books to be read by people. We’re scanning them to be read by our AI.” Per a Google engineer in Nicholas Carr’s book: The Big Switch

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“Here is the bottom line: Good people and bad people are being empowered [by the Internet]. How a society responds will determine the outcome.” Google Chairman Eric Schmidt per The Christian Science Monitor, 5-9-13

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