Ambitious Quote by Robert Darnton

I wish there were a hundred services with which I could easily look at such a book; it would have saved me a lot…

— Sergey Brin

Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained…

— Gary Wolf

When Larry and Sergey founded Google Search, one of the things that struck me is that it was available for everyone to use. We…

— Sundar Pichai

I think what we need to do is we need to seek some other way in which to do what is potentially good work…

— Jonathon Keats

“Why can't I just Google it like everything else?! I hate you public library system!”

— Vera Brosgol

“Google’s trucks would pull up to libraries and quietly walk away with boxes of books to be quickly scanned and returned. “If you don’t…

— Franklin Foer

If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world where information is copied so…

— Jaron Lanier

Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and…

— Naveen Jain

If Google Books is successful, others will follow.

— Sergey Brin

“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…

— Alan Jacobs

I want to collect the entire range of scientific and educational literature and make it accessible to the whole world. Just like Google Books,…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

“for Google, the real value of a book is not as a self-contained literary work but as another pile of data to be mined.”

— Nicholas Carr