If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough

It's not enough not to be evil. We also actively try to be good.

Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.

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.

But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.

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.

I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself - as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal.