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

Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As computer scientists, we call that artificial intelligence.

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

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

I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it.

Lots of companies don’t succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future. I try to focus on that: What is the future really going to be? And how do we create it? And how do we power our organization to really focus on that and really drive it at a high rate? When I was working on Android, I felt guilty. It wasn’t what we were working on, it was a start-up, and I felt guilty. That was stupid! It was the future.