It's very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.

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

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.

We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.

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

One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As computer scientists, we call that artificial intelligence.

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