We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world.
Sergey BrinYou always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.
Sergey BrinUltimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind.
Sergey BrinOnce you go from 10 people to 100, you already donโt know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.
Sergey BrinPeople try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.
Sergey BrinWe are focused on features, not products. We eliminated future products that would have made the complexity problem worse. We don't want to have 20 different products that work in 20 different ways. I was getting lost at our site keeping track of everything. I would rather have a smaller set of products that have a shared set of features.
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