“Larry and Sergey [Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin] believe that if you try to get everybody on board it will prevent things from happening. If you just do it, others will come around to realize they were attached to old ways that were not as good. . . . No one has proven them wrong—yet.” -- Stanford computer science professor Terry Winograd (Larry Page’s academic adviser and mentor when Page and Brin were Ph.D. candidates) on his former students, who gave him Google stock for work he did early in the company’s history
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The New Yorker, January 14, 2008
