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 chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.

Being negative is not how we make progress, and the most important things are not zero sum.

It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

You can be serious without a suit

As a precaution, we’re making machines extremely heavy with very tiny legs.