Larry Page Quotes

This is our chance to one up the Greeks! It is really possible with the technology of today, not tomorrow. We can provide all the works of humankind to all the people in the world. It will be an achievement remembered for all time…

We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.

Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.

No company has embraced the liberating aspects of the Internet as a 'new marketplace of ideas' more than the search giant Google.

I think we are definitely suffering from an information overload, but I believe that there is going to be better and better ways of organizing that information and processing it so that it will enhance your daily life. I just think that technology and information, it's overwhelming at the moment, but it's really going to make life better.

All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open.

Today we all are enjoying the fruits of the digital era. Millions of sources of information coming at us at lightning fast speed. That technology has also democratized the gathering and dissemination of news, allowing for 'citizen journalists' to make their mark, even usurping the role of mainstream news organizations at times.

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the world. If we fail to do so, we are not living up to our civic duty.

When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.

It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.

I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner.

Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invented an advertising business which has provided great economics that allows us to build the servers, hire the employees, create value.

The Internet has empowered us. It has empowered you, it has empowered me, and it has empowered some other guys as well.

Police states cannot endure under the advance of the computer because it increases the power of the people far faster than the powers of surveillance.

It’s one of the basics of librarianship, to respect privacy, to understand that what people read isn’t necessarily what they believe, and to give them the ability to come in and find information without any chilling effect.

You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing

A world in which we can fully experience the benefits that a connected society brings remains out of reach. Vested interests all too often feel threatened by the modern world, and they are holding Scotland back. We want to change that.

You can have Google or you can have privacy but you can’t have both.

In the information age, when tradition, propriety, formality or culture clash with informational ease and utility, the traditional forms must … yield.