One of my favorite authors is James Joyce, and the last lines of Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man is one of my favorite quotations:

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
— James Joyce, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man

This seems to jibe with Google Mission Statement – “…The name reflects the immense volume of information that exists, and the scope of Google’s mission: to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

I didn’t see this before. Interesting. The “uncreated conscience of my race” sorta equals “The name reflects the immense volume of information that exists, and the scope of Google’s mission: to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

I think Joyce would have loved Google and the intertubes…