Sergey Brin Quotes
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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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People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.
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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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Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind.
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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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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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If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough
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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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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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You can make money without doing evil.
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Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.
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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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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.