I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If Google teaches you anything, it's that small ideas can be big.
There's this open question of what Google is going to be a decade or more from now. Google X isn't the only answer to that question, but it was built as a place to do some of the exploration to find some great new problems for Google to tackle.
We could construct a machine that is more intelligent than we can understand. It's possible Google is that kind of thing already. It scales so fast.
Most of the great businesses of our time have experimented. Like Google.
Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.
The Internet has got great tools. How we lived without Google all those years I don't know.
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.
A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd say, 'Boy, that's interesting. Let's add some more engineers.'
Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture.
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.