People are starving in the world, not because we don't have enough food, but because we're not organized. And computers are part of that.

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.

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

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

The "Be good" concept also comes up when we design our products. We want them to have positive social effects.

The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think.

How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?