What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on.

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless.

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.

But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.

I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.

Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.