Occupation: Computer Scientist Birth: August 21, 1973
The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed..
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..
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..
Technology is an inherent democratizer. Because of the evolution of hardware and software, you’re able to scale up almost anything. It means that in ….
My vision when we started Google 15 years ago was that eventually you wouldn't have to have a search query at all. You'd just have information come t….
If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough.
Too many rules will stifle innovation..
Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind..
You can make money without doing evil..
It's a romantic notion that you're going to have one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great... but the execution and delivery are wh….
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..
The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get to….
Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companie….
We are focused on features, not products. We eliminated future products that would have made the complexity problem worse. We don't want to have 20 d….
If you had all the world's information directly attached to your brain, or an artificial brain that was smarter than your brain, you'd be better off..
Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a….
Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal..
It's not enough not to be evil. We also actively try to be good..
Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems..
We are currently not planning on conquering the world..
Currently we don't have plans on conquering the world..