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

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

If we are not trusted, we have no business.

We have always tried to concentrate on the long term, and to place bets on technology we believe will have a significant impact over time. It's hard to imagine now, but when we started Google most people thought search was a solved problem and that there was no money to be made apart from some banner advertising. We felt the exact opposite: that search quality was very poor, and that awesome user experiences would clearly make money.

You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.

The ultimate search engine... would understand exactly what you mean and give back exactly what you want.

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