We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served - as shareholders and in all other ways - by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company.

You’re going to have some very amazing capabilities in the economy. When we have computers that can do more and more jobs, it’s going to change how we think about work. There’s no way around that. You can’t wish it away.

I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research.

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

The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.

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.

For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.