“Poor-quality software has all the subtlety of a neighborhood ice cream truck. You know it's bad for you; you know it's coming a mile away; yet you can't resist.”

“Every country has its cocktail-party question. A simple one-sentence query, the answer to which unlocks a motherlode of information about the person you just met.... In Switzerland it is, Where are you from? That is all you need to know about someone.”

“With your permission you give us more information about you, your friends, and we can improve the quality of our searches. We don't need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less guess what you're thinking about.”

“You never know what's coming for you.”

“Have you ever been at a point that you don't know what to say? But yet you came up with this crazy idea to type this.”

“Would you know my nameIf I saw you in heavenWill it be the sameIf I saw you in heavenI must be strong, and carry onCause I know I don't belongHere in heavenWould you hold my handIf I saw you in heavenWould you help me standIf I saw you in heavenI'll find my way, through night and dayCause I know I just can't stayHere in heaven”

“Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal.”