Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.

If you can run the company a bit more collaboratively, you get a better result, because you have more bandwidth and checking and balancing going on.

I like going to Burning Man, for example. That's an environment where people can try out different things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out some new things and figure out what is the effect on society, what's the effect on people, without having to deploy kind of into the normal world.

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

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

If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.

The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.