Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

We understand the need to balance our short- and longer-term needs because our revenue is the engine that funds all our innovation. But over time, our emerging high-usage products will likely generate significant new revenue streams for Google as well as for our partners, just as search does today.

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

Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.

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

I really like using my Samsung (005930:KS) tablet. I previously used the Motorola Xoom for a while and liked that.

If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.