Google is in a position where it doesn't even have to strive to become a hip, conscious choice. Brands are temporary fads. Functionality is forever. Google just has to 'be,' and everyone will end up there sooner or later.
The gods have become our diseases.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
The greater the tension, the greater is the potential.
For better to come, good must stand aside.
Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or any of the other beautiful euphemisms for unconscious urges to personal power.
Commendation heals; condemnation destroys.
The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's new clothes: everyone knew it but preferred to ignore it. Paleontologists, faced with a recalcitrant record obstinately refusing to yield Darwin's predicted pattern, simply looked the other way.
Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.
Gehrig was not like the common folk; Created, was he, like the strongest oak.
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.