Gilbert Gottfried Quotes

As much as we can, we want to prevent people from having to think about how to keep and share their stuff.

I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

Digital media are biased toward replication and storage. Our digital photos practically upload and post themselves on Facebook, and our most deleted e-mails tend to resurface when we least expect it. Yes, everything you do in the digital realm may as well be broadcast on prime-time television and chiseled on the side of the Parthenon.

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require.

All of my memories are now on hard drives. I'll change phones or I'll change my laptop, and all my photos stay.

The belief is more and more as we use iCloud services for documents and our photos and videos and music that perhaps the most price-conscious customers are able to live in an environment where they don't need gobs of local storage because these services are lightening the load.

I don't know how to back up.

It turns out a human being in two, three or four hours can build a search result that's much better than Google, Yahoo or Ask.

People set newspapers on fire; they use them for wrapping fish. The Internet does not have that property. What I don't think we've gotten is that you can make things last longer than in print.

Back up everything! You are not invulnerable. Catastrophic data loss can happen to you - one worm or Trojan is all it takes.

Dropbox, with its emphasis on good old-fashioned hierarchies, is superb at automatically saving one original of each photo I take, whether shot with a phone or a fancy camera. No loops, no duplicates, no confusion.

I think as more people use the phones to access the Internet, they have a lot less patience for trying to find things on the search engines. That is because you need to figure a lot of things out for search to work.

I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data.

All sorts of factors contribute to what Facebook or Twitter present in a feed, or what Google or Bing show us in search results. Our expectation is that those intermediaries will provide open conduits to others' content and that the variables in their processes just help yield the information we find most relevant.

Everyone and his Big Brother wants to log your browsing habits, the better to build a profile of who you are and how you live your life - online and off. Search engine companies offer a benefit in return: more relevant search results. The more they know about you, the better they can tailor information to your needs.

Search, which is extremely important, represents about 5% of the page views on the Internet and 40% of the revenue. So, highly monetized.

TheIinternet is a timeless void - you put something in there, and it's there forever and loses a lot of context.

We want to make sure the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time.

To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.

To my way of thinking, passive management of file assets is okay for screwing around with iPads, where we're mainly watching TV on Netflix or obsessive-compulsively checking the popularity of our Instagram uploads.

Enterprise search is becoming an indispensable tool to businesses of all sizes, helping people to find, use and share critical business information quickly.

All the information in the world has been pretty dispersed, but Google's mission has been to organize it and make it universally accessible.