The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.
The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.'
Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.
I used to say that you'll have 10 IP address on your body... and it looks like that's going to happen through medical monitoring.
Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example.
I think of Google as a set of overlapping things. It's a consumer platform, consumer phenomenon of which search is its fundamental activity, but there are many other things you can do than search... I think of Google as an advertising company who services the broader advertising industry in the ways that you know.
If you think about YouTube, YouTube is a 'searching the world's videos' problem, right? They all have to be there, but how do you find them? What I guess I'm trying to say is that search is still the killer app.
People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots.
If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.
I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.
Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invented an advertising business which has provided great economics that allows us to build the servers, hire the employees, create value.
When you use Google, do you get more than one answer? Of course you do. Well, that's a bug. We have more bugs per second in the world. We should be able to give you the right answer just once. We should know what you meant.
The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.
One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It's simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who's online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy.
I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving.
If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.
We weren't here to hope and hang on. We wanted to win.
I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.
