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

Twitter can no more produce analysis than a monkey can type out a work of Shakespeare.

We want to make sure the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time.

I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving.

A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd say, 'Boy, that's interesting. Let's add some more engineers.'

There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.

For those who say you're thinking too big... be smart enough not to listen. For those who say the odds are too small ... be dumb enough to give it a shot. And for those who ask, how can you do that?... look them in the eyes and say, I'll figure it out.