Things We Know To Be True [Week's
News Poem, January 4, 2013]
Internet owner's manual:
Pages of rage,
Filled to the Brin with sin.
Don't be evil,
Be aggressive.
““Don’t Be Evil,” the founders
of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, proclaimed in their 2004
“Owner’s Manual” for prospective investors in the company.
Despite widespread cynicism, criticism and even mockery, the company
has never backed down on this core premise, reiterating in its most
recent list of the “things we know to be true” that “You can
make money without doing evil.”...On Thursday, after nearly two
years of investigation, the Federal Trade Commission rendered a
verdict: Google isn’t evil. ”
—The Line Between ‘Aggressive’
and ‘Evil’ by JAMES B. STEWART, The New York Times, January 4,
2013
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