Sergey Brin Quotes
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Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind.
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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.
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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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People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.
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Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.
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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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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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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.