It is a tremendous responsibility for us to have all the eyes focused on what we do and give people exactly what they need when they ask for it.

My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.

If you can run the company a bit more collaboratively, you get a better result, because you have more bandwidth and checking and balancing going on.

If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.

I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly.

You need to get one thing done well, or else you don't have permission to do anything else.

We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.