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.

Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind.

It's a romantic notion that you're going to have one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great... but the execution and delivery are what's key.

You 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.

If you had all the world's information directly attached to your brain, or an artificial brain that was smarter than your brain, you'd be better off.

As for "Don't be evil," we have tried to define precisely what it means to be a force for good-always do the right, ethical thing. Ultimately, "Don't be evil" seems the easiest way to summarize it.

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