Sergey Brin would rather be remembered as "very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world". Originally from Moscow, he is thankful that his father brought him to the US when he was six years old and had said so in many interviews. However, most of his quotes involve the company he cofounded with Larry page, declaring that they "want Google to be the third half of your brain” and that they want to have great people working for them. At the same time, we also find him talking on other relevant issues like solving problems and whether money can buy happiness etc. Let us now look into some of his quotes on happiness, dreams, organization, Google, self-confidence etc.
Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.
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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.
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Before Google, I don't think people put much effort into the ordering of results. You might get a couple thouand results for a query. We saw that a thousand results weren't necessarily as useful as 10 good ones.
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It is ironic since whenever I have met with our elected officials they are invariably thoughtful, well-meaning people. And yet collectively 90% of their effort seems to be focused on how to stick it to the other party.
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We wouldn't survive if people didn't trust us.
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We deal with all varieties of information. Somebody's always upset no matter what we do. We have to make a decision; otherwise there's a never-ending debate.
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I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself - as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal.
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I'd like to get to a state where people think that if you've Googled something, you've researched it, and otherwise haven't, and that's it.
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It's a romantic notion that you're going to have one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great... but the execution and delivery are what's key.
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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.
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Generally, health is just so heavily regulated. It's just a painful business to be in. It's just not necessarily how I want to spend my time.
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If you had all the world's information directly attached to your brain, or an artificial brain that was smarter than your brain, you'd be better off.
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In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won't kill people.
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We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.
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It's not enough not to be evil. We also actively try to be good.
When it’s too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley.
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Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.
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The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.
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Too many rules will stifle innovation.
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We are currently not planning on conquering the world.
As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.
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Technology is an inherent democratizer. Because of the evolution of hardware and software, you’re able to scale up almost anything. It means that in our lifetime everyone may have tools of equal power.
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Currently we don't have plans on conquering the world.
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People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.
Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind.
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If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough
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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.
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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.
Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don't know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.
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.
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.
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But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.
Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.
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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.
We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world.
