I'm able to bring business expertise but, more importantly, operating experience. The people here at Google are young. Every day there are lots of new challenges. I keep things focused. The speech I give everyday is: "This is what we do. Is what you are doing consistent with that, and does it change the world?"

I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving.

Mobile is the future, and there's no such thing as communication overload.

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

One person's definition of evil is another person's different definition.

The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.'

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.