Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life.
If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!
Anything you can imagine probably is doable, you just have to imagine it and work on it.
The Web is a vast collection of completely uncontrolled heterogeneous documents.
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.