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

Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley.

We will make machines that can reason, think and do things better than we can.

We do lots of Stuff. The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.

When it’s too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship.

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.

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.

A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.

I’ve started doing yoga and meditation, but I’m not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.

The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I’m not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

The way that we tried to approach every piece of music is, if the song had a brain, it would be aware of its catalog.

There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.