I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

That's how we're going to stay innovative. We're going to continue to attract entrepreneurs who say, 'I found an idea, and I can go to Google and have a demo in a month and be launched in six.'

Google has the functionality of a really complicated Swiss Army knife, but the home page is our of approaching it closed... It's simple, it's elegant you can slip it in your pocket, but it's got the great doodad when you need it

If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.

I don't think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that, I certainly believe in equal rights. I believe that women are just as capable, if not more so, in a lot of different dimensions. But I don't, I think, have sort of the militant drive and the sort of the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that.

Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.

We were very focused on becoming profitable from a very early time, which was not true of most companies in the bubble