Walter Kirn Quotes

If you want my answer about Donald Trump, you can Google it. It's everywhere. They've got this new thing called Google.

Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.

I don't know if I change my act from century to century. Sometimes I'm onstage doing imitations and references to people who have been dead for 50 years.

Relevance is a search engine's holy grail. People want results that are closely connected to their queries.

I know for a fact, obviously, because my kids grew up watching the show, that there are some things they are introduced to from 'The Simpsons', and then later in life they see the thing we're parodying. My kids had not seen 'Casablanca,' and we'd done parodies of 'Casablanca.'

Google transformed the way most of us get our information with a search engine that enables us to find citizen-created media content alongside the work of professionals.

I never get tired of 'It Was A Good Day' references or jokes or anything like that. It's just, you know, keeping my biggest hit alive. Nothing wrong with that.

I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.

There's nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere.

It is seldom right to say that anything is true 'according to Google.' Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for 'hamadryad,' and it points you to Wikipedia. Or the Free Online Dictionary. Or the Official Hamadryad Web Site (it's a rock band, too, wouldn't you know).

Have you seen McConaughey in 'Unsolved Mysteries?' Even back then, it's a great performance! And he's mowing the lawn.

I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.

I go on YouTube when somebody says to look something up.

It's amazing what's buried in old, poorly digitized PDFs hosted on some random professor's website.

I know how to cane chairs - how's that for a useless skill? My mom once took a course and taught me how to do it when I was stuck at home sick with the flu. Now I'm all set if I ever decide to drop out of fashion and join an Amish community.

It annoys me when contemporary films and television shows create artificial tensions that could easily be resolved by a quick email or the use of a search engine. 'La La Land' was guilty of this several times, as well as a more generalised aesthetic nostalgia.

Any child can tell you what Google does - Google gives you the answers. But Google doesn't, not really.

Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.

I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens.

Old man with an old phone. That's never not funny.

I'd like to get to a state where people think that if you've Googled something, you've researched it, and otherwise haven't, and that's it.

I'll take you to Mickey D's," said Sean. "I'll buy you a hamburger." Annie was not thrilled. Sean's offer did not compare to offers made in other centuries. "And fries," Sean said. "And a vanilla milkshake." Annie remained unthrilled. "Okay, okay. You can have a Big Mac." Romance in my century, she thought, is pitiful.

I call this one the Ninja Center-fold! ~ Naruto

When I was a kid, I inhaled. Frequently. That was the point.

I thought it was funny. I always thought Star Wars and Indiana Jones were basically comedies. The humour came out of their relationships; it came out of the fact that we were basically types.