I like going to Burning Man, for example. That's an environment where people can try out different things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out some new things and figure out what is the effect on society, what's the effect on people, without having to deploy kind of into the normal world.

You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.

Don't be evil- apparently people like it better than "Be good".

The ultimate search engine... would understand exactly what you mean and give back exactly what you want.

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

Excellence matters, and technology advances so fast that the potential for improvement is tremendous. So, since becoming CEO again, I've pushed hard to increase our velocity, improve our execution, and focus on the big bets that will make a difference in the world.

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