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

You can’t argue with facts. You’re not entitled to your own facts.

[Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages, behaviour, and desires.

It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is

Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings.

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

I love nine hundred and ninety nine facial expressions of Jemma Garner, none of them is sad look.

Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another.

Logic has nothing to do with oppression.

We are God’s gift to each other. Like a master composer, He brings all the instruments together, each with a different tone, each playing a different part, and He makes it turn out so beautifully.

You become a star not because of your title; you become a star because you are adding star value to the company

Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.

...for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.