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

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.

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.

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.

There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of … permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Conservation must become before recreation.

Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

When conservatives talk about opportunity, they mean opportunities for the rich to get richer, for the powerful to get more powerful.