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" We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many. "
Larry Page
Rather
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Many
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" 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. "
Larry Page
Head
Grandfather
Work
" 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. "
Larry Page
Best
Known
Know
" 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. "
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You
Understand
World
" 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. "
Larry Page
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Growth
Society
" For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security. "
Larry Page
You
Think
Security
" Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change. "
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Revolutionary
Need
Change
" I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus. "
Larry Page
Over
Google
Followers
" 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. "
Larry Page
Building
Story
Change
" I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that. "
Larry Page
Technology
Stress
Important
" 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. "
Larry Page
Mess
Know
Kind
" Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense. "
Larry Page
Where
Sense
Always
" You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible. "
Larry Page
Great
Google
May
" I really like using my Samsung (005930:KS) tablet. I previously used the Motorola Xoom for a while and liked that. "
Larry Page
Really
Like
Samsung
" 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. "
Larry Page
Business
Change
History
" 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. "
Larry Page
Need
Discipline
Know
" 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. "
Larry Page
Focus
You
Power
" 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. "
Larry Page
Need
Best
You
" 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. "
Larry Page
New Things
Society
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. "
Larry Page
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. "
Larry Page
Sense
Me
Everyone
" 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. "
Larry Page
Good
Great
Society
" I can't really comment on rumors. "
Larry Page
Comment
Rumors
Really
" Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct. "
Larry Page
People
Rap
Think
" Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. "
Larry Page
Goal
Useful
World
" 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. "
Larry Page
Want
Day
Beautiful
" 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. "
Larry Page
Waiting
Work
Care
" Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future. "
Larry Page
Over
Wrong
Succeed
" 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. "
Larry Page
People
Internet
Small
" 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. "
Larry Page
Conversation
Government
You
" It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance. "
Larry Page
Web
Complicated
Importance