A fun quote from the earlier days at Google -- it's from a "letter to the editor" at the Wall Street Journal, in response to their "Boom Town" column about Google:
J. Claude Tenday writes: Old habits die hard. For Sergey Brin to expect to grow a $100 billion/year business from an obscure $60 million/year niche player in an already mature Web-search market shows that Mr. Brin is still California dreamin'. And for the Wall Street Journal to take him seriously shows reporters may still be prey to dot-com hype!