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.

To me, what you want to do is find a way to let this play out between the virtual world and the physical world...Ultimately, I think society will get there. It will be messy, but we'll get there.

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

I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.

Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences.

When you use Google, do you get more than one answer? Of course you do. Well, that's a bug. We have more bugs per second in the world. We should be able to give you the right answer just once. We should know what you meant.

Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.