People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.
The policy of America to deny visas to technically trained people in the U.S. and shipped to other countries, where they create companies that compete with America, has to be the stupidest policy of all the U.S. government policies.
We want to make sure the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time.
The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting.
It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.
By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded.
The self driving car is not self-aware. It's just driving; it's not thinking.
It's very difficult for governments to dominate the Internet because it's so difficult to control. People want to be free. People want to hear multiple voices. They want to make their own decisions. And people who see things will report things.
Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture.
Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.
The Internet is fast becoming a cesspool where false information thrives.
Brands are the solution, not the problem. Brands are how you sort out the cesspool. ... Brand affinity is clearly hard wired. It is so fundamental to human existence that it's not going away. It must have a genetic component.
Within search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher than content without such verification, which will result in most users naturally clicking on the top (verified) results. The true cost of remaining anonymous, then, might be irrelevance.
The trend has been mobile was winning. It's now won.
Find a way to say “Yes” to things. Say yes to invitations to a new country, say yes to meet new friends, say yes to learning a new language, picking up a new sport. Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job. Yes is how you find your spouse, and even your kids.
The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other.
We're about to see an acceleration in technological platforms that, for marketers, will be on a scale rivalled only by the arrival of color TV.
A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd say, 'Boy, that's interesting. Let's add some more engineers.'
Since I have access to every, every crisis in the world because it's always blaring at me on cable television, that doesn't mean I have to worry about every one of them. This is also known as knowing where the 'off' button is.
There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It's constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.
Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.
Mobile is the future, and there's no such thing as communication overload.
It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.
Remember, when you go to YouTube, you do a search. When you go to Google, you do a search. As we get the search integrated between YouTube and Google, which we're working on, it will drive a lot of traffic into both places. So the trick, overall, is generating more searches, more uses of Google.
There clearly are cases where evil people exist, but you don't have to violate the privacy of every single citizen of America to find them.
