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The reason that Google was such a success is because they were the first ones to take advantage of the self-organizing properties of the web. It's in ecological sustainability. It's in the developmental power of entrepreneurship, the ethical power of democracy.

The Internet has got great tools. How we lived without Google all those years I don't know.

Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invented an advertising business which has provided great economics that allows us to build the servers, hire the employees, create value.

My Google existence is probably larger than a lot of people's.

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.

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.

Even though Google may do very well, there will always be an alternative to what Google is doing, and people will always have the free choice... because there's no way for us to prevent them from exercising that choice. That is one of the key aspects of why the Internet has been so successful. No technologies can dominate.

All the information in the world has been pretty dispersed, but Google's mission has been to organize it and make it universally accessible.

If we want to help Google become something meaningfully different in the future, then that's more likely to happen if we focus on the physical world instead.

The story of Google is just when everyone concluded that a search engine would never make any money, everyone backed out of it, and Google walked into that vacuum and dominated.