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“Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.”

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One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As…

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We should be focusing on building things that do not exist.

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We try to, when you come to Google, fulfill that need that you have as quickly as possible.

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

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Find the leverage in the world so you can be truly lazy.

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Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the Web. It would understand exactly…

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If you're not doing some things that are crazy, then you're doing the wrong things.

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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…

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Don't be evil- apparently people like it better than "Be good".

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