Every story I read about Google is about us vs some other company, or something else, and I really don't find that interesting. We should be building great things that don't exist. Being negative is not how we make progress.

Google will fulfill its mission only when its search engine is AI-complete. You guys know what that means? That's artificial intelligence.

If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things.

If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.

We understand the need to balance our short- and longer-term needs because our revenue is the engine that funds all our innovation. But over time, our emerging high-usage products will likely generate significant new revenue streams for Google as well as for our partners, just as search does today.

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

We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.