Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.

...It's important to distinguish between "worry versus harm" when it came to privacy online.

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

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

If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

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.