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" If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning. "

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" Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct. "

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

" You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it. "

" I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus. "

" I really like using my Samsung (005930:KS) tablet. I previously used the Motorola Xoom for a while and liked that. "

" 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. "

" For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security. "

" 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. "

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

" You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible. "

" I can't really comment on rumors. "

" If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach. "

" 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. "

" We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing. "

" Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. "

" 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. "

" We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist. "

" You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies. "

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

" We want to build technology that everybody loves using, and that affects everyone. We want to create beautiful, intuitive services and technologies that are so incredibly useful that people use them twice a day. Like they use a toothbrush. There aren't that many things people use twice a day. "

" 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. "

" 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. "