The amazing thing is that we're part of people's daily lives, like brushing their teeth. It's just something they do throughout the day while working, buying things, deciding what to do after work and much more. Google has been accepted as part of people's lives.

Part of our brand is that we're pretty understated in what we do. If you look at other technology companies, they might preannounce things, and it will be a couple years before they really happen, and they don't happen in the way they said they would.

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

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.

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

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.

Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.