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.
From Sergey Brin
I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that's what this organization does.
We just want to have great people working for us.
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.
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.
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.
If Google Books is successful, others will follow.
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