For many people, Google is the most important tool on the Web.
The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV.
If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They love to think their way out of that little box: 'We know you said it was impossible, but we're going to do this, this, and that to get us there.'
To me, speed is really about convenience.
I think that ultimately over time we really should strive for a place where most information is available online and is searchable.