“It’s clear there’s a lot of room for improvement, there’s no inherent ceiling we’re hitting up on.”

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.

Too many rules stifle innovation.

If Google Books is successful, others will follow.

As we go forward, I hope we’re going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it’s probably not transformative enough.

I had no dreams of such economic success. You should have fun and not be so weighed down by expectations.

My goal is for Google to lead, not follow.

So, for instance, let me make this clear: You know I signed a statement. I will not raise taxes on anybody. I don’t want to raise taxes on the American people.

A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.

If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.

Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.

You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.