Google has the functionality of a really complicated Swiss Army knife, but the home page is our of approaching it closed... It's simple, it's elegant you can slip it in your pocket, but it's got the great doodad when you need it
I refuse to be stereotyped.
I pace myself by taking a week-long vacation every four months.
I think that ultimately over time we really should strive for a place where most information is available online and is searchable.
The prime reason the Google homepage is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn't know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. In fact, it was noted that the SUBMIT button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.
For some people, what really matters to them is sleep.
We were very focused on becoming profitable from a very early time, which was not true of most companies in the bubble
Vince Lombardi says, you know, "In my life, there are three things: God, family and the Green Bay Packers, in that order. For me, it's God, family and Yahoo!, in that order.
The Googly thing is to launch products early on Google Labs and then iterate, learning what the market wants - and making it great. The beauty of experimenting in this way is that you never get too far from what the market wants. The market pulls you back.
I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.
I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.
Today, only about 1% of the World Wide Web is written in Arabic.
Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day.
Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?
