I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.

The prime reason the Google homepage is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn't know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. In fact, it was noted that the SUBMIT button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.

I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.

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.

I'm a geek, I like to code, I even like to use spreadsheets when I cook.

If you took the entire internet and laid it end to end, it would weigh more than the other thing. It would weigh more than it would if it wasn't laid end to end. Like, if it was a ball of rolled up internet it would weigh less. I'm pretty sure. It depends on the size of the scale, I think.

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.'