There are basically no companies that have good slow decisions. There are only companies that have good fast decisions.

Find the leverage in the world so you can be truly lazy.

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

Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life.

You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.

Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.

You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.