Even though Google may do very well, there will always be an alternative to what Google is doing, and people will always have the free choice... because there's no way for us to prevent them from exercising that choice. That is one of the key aspects of why the Internet has been so successful. No technologies can dominate.

Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture.

The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information.

Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.

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.

If you think about YouTube, YouTube is a 'searching the world's videos' problem, right? They all have to be there, but how do you find them? What I guess I'm trying to say is that search is still the killer app.

It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.