Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.

The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media.

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

People who bet against the Internet, who think that somehow this change is just a generational shift, miss that it is a fundamental reorganizing of the power of the end user. The Internet brings tremendous tools to the end user, and that end user is going to use them.

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.

The more broadband we can get globally, the better. It's better for the world; it's better for our advertisers; it's better for Google.

The biggest mistake that I made was not anticipating the rise of the social networking phenomenon.