I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic - in every one of these places.

The core problem is that the world is full of people who would like to take 99 per cent of the information that's on the Internet, and eliminate 1 per cent. Everyone has their own thing they don't like.

People are building communities of people who use video. They're sharing them. YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly.

The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting.

The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media.

Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.

In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.