If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

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?

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.

You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

Anything you can imagine probably is doable, you just have to imagine it and work on it.

Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the Web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. We're nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we work on.

For a lot of companies, it's useful for them to feel like they have an obvious competitor and to rally around that. I personally believe it's better to shoot higher. You don't want to be looking at your competitors. You want to be looking at what's possible and how to make the world better.