People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.

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.

If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough

Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.

We are currently not planning on conquering the world.

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.

The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

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 came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.

When it’s too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley.

The only way to reduce ugliness in the world is to reduce it in yourself,

Man is an endangered species.

I read like the flame reads the wood.

No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.

It's very important to have a definitive style as a designer.

Today I want to puke when I hear the word 'radical' applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in the world.

Today I no longer need to change the world around me. I just need to change the way I see it.

some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.

Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms us in ordinary moments.