I worry that the level of interrupt, the sort of overwhelming rapidity of information — and especially of stressful information — is in fact affecting cognition. It is in fact affecting deeper thinking. I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.
 And I worry that we’re losing that.

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

It's because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional resources.

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots.

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.

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