There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It's constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.

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

I do want to emphasize that we've seen an explosion in the use of Google Maps and Google Earth for education. The earth is a special place. It is our home and it's why we're all here. And the ability to see what's really going on the earth, the good stuff and the bad stuff, at the level that you can, is phenomenal.

Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.

In a world where everything is remembered and everything is kept forever, you need to live for the future and things you really care about.

I used to say that you'll have 10 IP address on your body... and it looks like that's going to happen through medical monitoring.

We didn't see any statistically significant relationship between our buzz and our short-term sales...Is that the end of the story? I would say no. This is one study on a set of brands in a particular company within a certain segment of the consumer-packag ed-goods industry. It is by no means a generalized result that applies to all industries.