Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.
Anything you can imagine probably is doable, you just have to imagine it and work on it.
Always deliver more than expected.
You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.
It's very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.
Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!
If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things.
Optimism is important. You have to be a little silly about the goals you are going to set. There is a phrase I learned in college called, 'having a healthy disregard for the impossible.' That is a really good phrase. You should try to do things that most people would not do.
It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. ... Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.
If we are not trusted, we have no business.
You treat people with respect, they tend to return the favor to the company.
We should be building great things that don't exist.
You need to get one thing done well, or else you don't have permission to do anything else.
Find the leverage in the world so you can be truly lazy.
Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.
One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As computer scientists, we call that artificial intelligence.
Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.
Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life.
We have always believed that it's possible to make money without being evil.
You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.
People are starving in the world, not because we don't have enough food, but because we're not organized. And computers are part of that.
We should be focusing on building things that do not exist.
You can be serious without a suit
Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.
Serving our end users is at the heart of what we do and remains our number one priority.
