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

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

If we are not trusted, we have no business.

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.

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.

If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.

You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.