Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

Lots of companies don’t succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future. I try to focus on that: What is the future really going to be? And how do we create it? And how do we power our organization to really focus on that and really drive it at a high rate? When I was working on Android, I felt guilty. It wasn’t what we were working on, it was a start-up, and I felt guilty. That was stupid! It was the future.

People are starving in the world, not because we don't have enough food, but because we're not organized. And computers are part of that.

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

You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.

You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people.