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

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.

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 am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.

If you’re willing to suffer, and I mean suffer, your brain and body once connected together, can do anything.

The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.

The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.