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

The average American doesnt realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

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.

Remember, when you go to YouTube, you do a search. When you go to Google, you do a search. As we get the search integrated between YouTube and Google, which we're working on, it will drive a lot of traffic into both places. So the trick, overall, is generating more searches, more uses of Google.

The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other.

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

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.