I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.

Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently - is largely defined by detailed analytical views and policy choices that are not very good. You know, each policy choice has a winner and a loser, right? Somebody's ox is getting gored.

Just remember when you post something, the computers remember forever.

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.

If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

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.

Search companies, which I won't mention by name, tried to do so many things at the same time, they forgot all about search. They either missed the next revolution of search or they created an opening for a Google to enter.