Quotes from Larry Page

The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job - that just doesn't make any sense to me. That can't be the right answer.

You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

We want to build technology that everybody loves using, and that affects everyone. We want to create beautiful, intuitive services and technologies that are so incredibly useful that people use them twice a day. Like they use a toothbrush. There aren't that many things people use twice a day.

My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.

We have always believed that it's possible to make money without being evil.

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

Don't be evil- apparently people like it better than "Be good".

We should be building great things that don't exist.

Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.

I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus.

I can't really comment on rumors.

One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As computer scientists, we call that artificial intelligence.

Google will fulfill its mission only when its search engine is AI-complete. You guys know what that means? That's artificial intelligence.

You treat people with respect, they tend to return the favor to the company.

If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.

If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.

Always deliver more than expected.

I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it.

For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.