Quotes from Sergey Brin

If Google Books is successful, others will follow.

It was the summer of 1998. At that point, we were just scrounging around to find resources; we had stolen these computers from all over the department, sort of.

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.

The revolution in deep nets has been very profound. It definitely surprised me, even though I was sitting right there.

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.

I was interested in data mining, which means analyzing large amounts of data, discovering patterns and trends. At the same time, Larry started downloading the Web, which turns out to be the most interesting data you can possibly mine.

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.

Basically, we convert the entire Web into a big equation, with several hundred million variables, which are the page ranks of all the Web pages, and billions of terms, which are the links. And we're able to solve that equation.

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.

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.

Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind.

I had no dreams of such economic success. You should have fun and not be so weighed down by expectations.

If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough

Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.

I wish there were a hundred services with which I could easily look at such a book; it would have saved me a lot of time, and it would have spared Google a tremendous amount of effort.

We want Google to be the third half of your brain.

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.

People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.

We just want to have great people working for us.

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.

Artificial intelligence is one of the most profound things we're working on as humanity. It's more profound than fire or electricity.

Before Google, I don't think people put much effort into the ordering of results. You might get a couple thousand results for a query. We saw that a thousand results weren't necessarily as useful as 10 good ones.

I think that artificial intelligence will ultimately be a force for good in the world. I also think that it's inevitable that it will take a significant share of jobs, and therefore the world will need to adapt to that.

If I were seriously interested in something important to me, I wouldn't just click on the first search result, read it and take it as God's word.