I had always assumed that the right way to do it was to these engineers, put them in offices by themselves with doors that they could close so they could think deep thoughts. This is a terrible idea.

Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently - is largely defined by detailed analytical views and policy choices that are not very good. You know, each policy choice has a winner and a loser, right? Somebody's ox is getting gored.

There clearly are cases where evil people exist, but you don't have to violate the privacy of every single citizen of America to find them.

Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.

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

It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

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?"