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" Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. "
Goal
Useful
World
" Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense. "
Where
Sense
Always
" Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know. "
Mess
Know
Kind
" Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change. "
Revolutionary
Need
Change
" For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security. "
You
Think
Security
" I can't really comment on rumors. "
Comment
Rumors
Really
" I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that. "
Technology
Stress
Important
" If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach. "
Long Time
Money
Beach
" If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that. "
Problem
Growth
Society
" If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness. "
Waiting
Work
Care
" If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning. "
Morning
World
You
" If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995. "
Need
Discipline
Know
" I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly. "
Hard Work
Communication
Work
" I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus. "
Over
Google
Followers
" I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world. "
New Things
Society
People
" Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people. "
Focus
You
Power
" I really like using my Samsung (005930:KS) tablet. I previously used the Motorola Xoom for a while and liked that. "
Really
Like
Samsung
" I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name. "
People
Progress
Competition
" It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact. "
People
Internet
Small
" It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance. "
Web
Complicated
Importance
" Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future. "
Over
Wrong
Succeed
" Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues. "
Business
Change
History
" Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct. "
People
Rap
Think
" My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company. "
Head
Grandfather
Work
" 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 and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that. "
Good
Great
Society
" Over time, our emerging high-usage products will likely generate significant new revenue streams for Google as well as for our partners, just as search does today. "
New
Today
Will
" The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job - that just doesn't make any sense to me. That can't be the right answer. "
Sense
Me
Everyone
" The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that. "
You
Understand
World
" We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why. "
Conversation
Government
You
" We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many. "
Rather
Few
Many
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