When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

We 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.

Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another 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 came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.

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.