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"I really try to avoid, you know, rolling out the history. The people are so important to me, and what happens to them, how they react, how things happen to them, this is what is important. I feel that if I can tell THAT story well, then people will go and Google the rest and fill in what they need to know."
"There's nobody who would be willing to do an interview on a regular basis that you can't go and Google and find out what has happened to them in the past week. There's nobody."
"Google gives preference to its own products, so having a Google+ account influences your search rankings."
"Don't know if it's good or bad that a Google search on “Big Bang Theory” lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe"
"The New York Times and PBS are gatekeepers of a sort. And they perform that role of gatekeeping with a set of rules and aspirations about where they want to lead their viewers and their readers. They value objective facts, and they attempt to transmit a comprehensive view of the world. And they do have values. And they do lead their viewers and their readers to certain conclusions. But it's different than such monopolies as Apple or Google which are dissecting information into these bits and pieces, which they're then transmitting to people. And it's about clicks."
"You know, you can go to the fiftieth thing on a Google list and that's the one you want, but the ones you are going to be directed to are the funders."
"So the first things that you see when you look up something on Google could be dependent on the amount of advertising or something else. Since it is a profit making institution, it is going to reflect the interests and concerns of those who fund it, which is advertisers."
"Take Google - I can use it, you can use it, anyone else can use it, but we all know its designed so that private power can influence significantly how you access it."
"I can't remember who told me but I was advised early on not to Google myself or read things about myself... I don't read a lot but get the gist of what's been said from friends and family. It's good to avoid it if you want to be normal person."
"Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace."
"Where Google and [Buckminster] Fuller overlap are in the potential for putting together disparate technologies in ways that can lead to something that might be a larger solution to a larger problem."
"I think what we need to do is we need to seek some other way in which to do what is potentially good work by Google. Google has made the world a better place in some ways."
"I think that [Buckminster] Fuller certainly would have found a way in which to be funded by Google in a way that he was funded by the Marine Corps and everybody else. He would have remained obstinately his own creature."
"We have the Google family calendar. Before a week starts, my wife and I sit down to decide who's driving who to school or when can we go out on a date."
