Sergey Brin Quotes
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Before Google, I don't think people put much effort into the ordering of results. You might get a couple thouand results for a query. We saw that a thousand results weren't necessarily as useful as 10 good ones.
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Generally, health is just so heavily regulated. It's just a painful business to be in. It's just not necessarily how I want to spend my time.
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Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind.
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It is ironic since whenever I have met with our elected officials they are invariably thoughtful, well-meaning people. And yet collectively 90% of their effort seems to be focused on how to stick it to the other party.
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Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.
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People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.
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We deal with all varieties of information. Somebody's always upset no matter what we do. We have to make a decision; otherwise there's a never-ending debate.
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I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself - as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal.
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If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough
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You can make money without doing evil.
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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.
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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.
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Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.
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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.
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But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.
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We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.