“We saw that a thousand results weren’t necessarily as useful as 10 good ones.”

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.

I feel there’s an existential angst among young people. I didn’t have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.

Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.

If you’re not doing things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things.

I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that’s what this organization does.

You can make money doing evil.

We believed we could build a better search. We had a simple idea that not all pages are created equal. Some are more important.

If I were seriously interested in something important to me, I wouldn’t just click on the first search result, read it and take it as God’s word.

The revolution in deep nets has been very profound. It definitely surprised me, even though I was sitting right there.

We just want to have great people working for us.

It’s very hard to fail completely if you aim high enough.

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

You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.

We want Google to be the third half of your brain.

It is easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.

I hate all the old pictures of me before 2010 – and they are always the first ones to come up. That’s why I don’t Google myself, man.

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I’d been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

For business, our internet love affair was a gift from the gods.

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.

I don’t use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.

The world is no more what it was in the times of quiet love… Everything is called Status nowadays and it goes on the internet like a rule.

The younger generation is surrounded by the Internet, apps, and video games. But somehow, my books make them read.