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.

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.

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.

Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don’t know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.

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.

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.

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