The self driving car is not self-aware. It's just driving; it's not thinking.

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

One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It's simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who's online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy.

Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

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.'

The biggest mistake that I made was not anticipating the rise of the social networking phenomenon.

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.