Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.

Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.

I'd like to get to a state where people think that if you've Googled something, you've researched it, and otherwise haven't, and that's it.

In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won't kill people.

Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine.

When it’s too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley.

We are currently not planning on conquering the world.