Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.

People who bet against the Internet, who think that somehow this change is just a generational shift, miss that it is a fundamental reorganizing of the power of the end user. The Internet brings tremendous tools to the end user, and that end user is going to use them.

Mobile use is growing faster than all of Google's internal predictions.

It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence at something.

I think it's pretty clear that the internet as a whole has not had a strong notion of identity. And identity means, 'Who am I?' Fundamentally, what Facebook has done has built a way to figure out who people are...

The issues of wireless versus wireline gets very messy. And that's really an FCC issue, not a Google issue.

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.'