Larry Brilliant Quotes

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• Google's a strange place. When I met Eric Schmidt, he said, "If you are kind to everybody, then you will make good decisions because people…
• One percent of the equity, 1 percent of the profits, and 1 percent of the people go into Google.org. The most important asset isn't money,…
• If you don't put the spiritual and religious dimension into our political conversation, you won't be asking the really big and important question. If you…
• Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.
• The defining character of Steve Jobs isn't his genius, it isn't his talent, it isn't his success. It's his love. That's why crowds came to…
• This is not something that happens far away to people that we don't know. Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all…
• The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.
• In 1980 we declared the globe free of smallpox. It was the largest campaign in United Nations history until the Iraq war. A hundred and…
• I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything.
• Life didn't just happen to them. They experienced life at a deeper level than I had ever experienced it. I had been a radical, a…
• If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.
• Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.
• Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
• I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right…
• The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.

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