quotations

If you want to find something on the World Wide Web, you "Google" it. With its one million servers located around the world, the company handles over a billion search requests daily. But when the Internet first came online, people struggled to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information. Some kind of search engine was needed. Enter two computer science graduate students from Stanford, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and the $229 billion behemoth we now know as Google was born. They are highly respected, established figures in the tech industry, but Page and Brin, unlike industry icons such as Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, have spent as little time as possible in front of the media. As a result, when Larry Page and Sergey Brin give time to speak, people listen. Carefully.

A collection of quotations from former NFL coach Vince Lombardi on such topics as winning, coaching, racism, family, and the game of football.

Presents excerpts from the writings of nineteenth-century essayist and poet Henry David Thoreau in which he expresses his thinking about science.

A collection of observations and commentary from Terry Pratchett about the universe he created called Discworld, a flat land balanced on the backs of four elephants, which stand on the back of a giant turtle flying through space.

Examines the public and private life of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis through excerpts from her writings and quotations from family and friends, including Lady Bird Johnson, Edward Kennedy, and Pierre Salinger.

Pairs photographs and illustrations with over three hundred quotes by heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, providing a chronicle of events and people in his life, from childhood to 2003.

Presents nearly four hundred quotations by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde, arranged by theme.

Presents 111 monologues for teenage boys and girls from twenty-nine of William Shakespeare's comedies and dramas, ranging in performance length from fifteen seconds to two minutes, and includes audition tips and discussion of Shakespearean speech and acting.