Sergey Brin Quotes

Google's library plan was staggering and exciting - it wasn't the idea I objected to, but the method.

The unlimited replication of information is generally a public good.

Once a discovery has been published, there is no way of un-publishing it.

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

Purchasing and downloading a book on to your e-reader won't necessarily protect it from disappearing.

The idea of a national digital library has been in the air for a long time, and there was a danger that some people would feel that it's their property, so to speak.

Wouldn't it be great if you could put all the published works online? The Internet Archive is trying to become useful as a modern-day digital library.

The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.

The thing that concerns me most is that, in the digital age, if we fail to make efforts to maintain the value of our content, there is the high possibility for the value to be greatly reduced, as the history of the music industry has shown.

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

The age of the book is almost gone.

I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved.

The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.

You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to have is access to an Internet cafe or a public library, and you can put your thoughts out in public.

There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.

It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.

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 much on the Internet that nobody knows where it came from anymore, so there can't be any rights of authorship.

I hope that the movie industry will learn from the experiences of the music industry and will be much more constructive in their approach to P2P.

Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing.

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

Unfortunately for me, most of the books I'd want to reprint were written for savvy publishers like Harlequin and Berkley who have held on to electronic rights. But I do have another option: Publish new e-books myself.

In my view, the ebook world for both established and new authors is a terrific new and exciting format. It is a format that will bring forth many new writers to publishing.

Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology.

It's the big boys, the Googles of this world, that are already benefiting from piracy and not paying the artists a dime.

I think, once recipes become digital, pirating a digital recipe and all the questions that you have with music and so forth will become pertinent to food as well.