“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.”

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.

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.

The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.

It is easy to go down into Hell but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air – there’s the rub.

Best to start at the bottom & gradually climb up. It’s much more fun, too.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

The stairs of our industry must be accessible to all. Let’s climb.

The stairs of our industry must be accessible to all. Let’s climb.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.