Excellence matters, and technology advances so fast that the potential for improvement is tremendous. So, since becoming CEO again, I've pushed hard to increase our velocity, improve our execution, and focus on the big bets that will make a difference in the world.

Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.

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.

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

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

It's very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.

If you can run the company a bit more collaboratively, you get a better result, because you have more bandwidth and checking and balancing going on.