Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is
too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.
Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine.
Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.
We just want to have great people working for us.
We want Google to be the third half of your brain.
Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don't know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.
Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.
The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation.
We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world.
I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that's what this organization does.
When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.
I feel there's an existential angst among young people. I didn't have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.