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.

As devices multiply and usage changes, many users coming online today may never use a desktop machine, it becomes more and more important to ensure that people can access all of their stuff anywhere.

Anything you can imagine probably is doable, you just have to imagine it and work on it.

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

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

We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served - as shareholders and in all other ways - by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company.

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.