We deal with all varieties of information. Somebody's always upset no matter what we do. We have to make a decision; otherwise there's a never-ending debate.

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.

Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.

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.

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.

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.

People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.