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.

Google will fulfill its mission only when its search engine is AI-complete. You guys know what that means? That's artificial intelligence.

Always deliver more than expected.

Find the leverage in the world so you can be truly lazy.

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.

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