Sergey Brin

“I was interested in data mining, which means analyzing large amounts of data, discovering patterns and trends. At the same time, Larry started downloading the Web, which turns out to be the most interesting data you can possibly mine.”

“You do see more people that have been freed up over the last couple of hundred years to do work that is more about thinking about or creating things... and I would hope to see that trend continue.”

“You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.”

“I wish there were a hundred services with which I could easily look at such a book; it would have saved me a lot of time, and it would have spared Google a tremendous amount of effort.”

“Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.”

“The revolution in deep nets has been very profound. It definitely surprised me, even though I was sitting right there.”

“When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.”

“Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine.”

“I feel there's an existential angst among young people. I didn't have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.”

“Having been trained as a computer scientist in the '90s, everybody knew that AI didn't work. People tried it. They tried neural nets, and none of it worked.”

“Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.”

“If Google Books is successful, others will follow.”

“Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.”

“I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that's what this organization does.”

“We have tried to define precisely what it means to be a force for good - always do the right, ethical thing. Ultimately, 'Don't be evil' seems the easiest way to summarize it.”

“Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.”

“The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation.”

“We want Google to be the third half of your brain.”

“It was the summer of 1998. At that point, we were just scrounging around to find resources; we had stolen these computers from all over the department, sort of.”

“I had no dreams of such economic success. You should have fun and not be so weighed down by expectations.”