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've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world.

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.

My vision when we started Google 15 years ago was that eventually you wouldn't have to have a search query at all. You'd just have information come to you as you needed it. And Google Glass is now, 15 years later, sort of the first form factor that I think can deliver that vision.

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

We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.