If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

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.'

Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

It is wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people. It challenges you to think and work on a different level. If you play with better players, you learn a lot: perspectives, intellectual arguments, new ways of thinking about things.

Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.

For many people, Google is the most important tool on the Web.