If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

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

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

We should be building great things that don't exist.

Over time, it's becoming more and more understood by people that we're acting in their interests. And that's a very, very powerful thing for our brand.

Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life.

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.