Google was not a normal place at all. There was just all kinds of weird stuff going on. I would just walk around and check stuff out like the kid in Willy Wonka going around the chocolate factory.

— Biz Stone, 'Google was Not a Normal Place': Brin, Page, and Mayer on the Accidental Birth of the Company That Changed Everything (2018)

Source: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/valley-of-genius-excerpt-google

From a July 2018 Vanity Fair article on Google's early years.

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