"With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility"

I have made fun of this quotation a lot. It sounds so cheesy.

The first time I read it, I did not understand it. A first enlightenment came while (out of all things) learning Object-Oriented (OO) programming. (In OO programming, the more "power" you have to access the attributes of an object, the more you have to be responsible/careful in using them.) Only two weeks ago, I had a second enlightenment. This time, it's as real-world a scenario as it gets.

Google vs. Evil: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.01/google_pr.html

It is an old article in Wired.com; but still an interesting read. Google's is a unique story that resembles a superhero beginning/origin/year one story. Two university students with the ambition to do good for mankind by providing a usable, fair search engine. And then they got a super power. Real super power. I cannot even begin to imagine how it feels to have such power that countries feel the need to talk to you, a mere individual. Even more, you have the power to impact so many people's life.

Anyway, with such a slogan as "Don't be Evil", I wonder why it took me so long to link a comic book quotation to Google.