I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research.

We have always wanted Google to be a company that is deserving of great love. But we recognize this is an ambitious goal because most large companies are not well-loved, or even seemingly set up with that in mind. We're lucky to have a very direct relationship with our users, which creates a strong incentive for us to do the right thing .

Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

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.

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

...It's important to distinguish between "worry versus harm" when it came to privacy online.

If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.