“If we are not trusted, we have no business.”

We are excited about Internet access in general. With better access to the Internet, people do more searches.

Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

It is easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.

My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they’re having a meaningful impact.

As a precaution, we’re making machines extremely heavy with very tiny legs.

We try to, when you come to Google, fulfill that need that you have as quickly as possible.

It’s quite complicated and sounds circular, but we’ve worked out a way of calculate a Web site’s importance.

Don’t be evil- apparently people like it better than “Be good”.

Optimism is important. You have to be a little silly about the goals you are going to set. You should try to do things that most people would not do.

People are starving in the world, not because we don’t have enough food, but because we’re not organized. And computers are part of that.

Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

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

Anything you can imagine probably is doable, you just have to imagine it and work on it.

Lots of companies don’t succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.

What is the one sentence summary of how you change the world? Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!

Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

It’s good to learn from your mistakes. It’s better to learn from other people’s mistakes.

I need to behave in a way that will cause people to take me seriously.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

Now more than ever, we need heroes in our communities!

Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company.

A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget.

Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.