Three now, one of them this thread.

I'm not sure I'd agree the other two are spam. One of them is a plain-text transcript of some sharepoint files that mentions the quote and attributes them to the same person. The other is the same powerpoint, but in its original on some slide sharing website.

In many cases, either would be a great result. Here it still gives us the direct quote and confirms that all the way back in 2013 somebody attributed it to the same guy. That's a great lead if you try to track down the origin of a quote. If you cared enough you could now contact the person who made the slides to track the quote further.

But they are there, and they are real, and they don't drown out any better results.

I'd rather have no results than spam results.

Totally agree, this is my main complaint against Google.

But IIRC all except one of the ones I got were actually relevant even if I had to tweak my query even more before I got better results.

I get three results. Top one is this thread on HN!