Sergey Brin Quotes

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

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  People, Fiction, Enough

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• Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.

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  Motivation, Littles, Problem

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• You can make money without doing evil.

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  Evil, Making Money

  "Why Google Is Like Wal-Mart". www.wired.com. April 21,2005.

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

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  People, Trying, Succeed

  "Google Guys". Playboy Interview, kottke.org.

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• Too many rules will stifle innovation.

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  Innovation

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• Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.

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  Goal, Innovation, Conversation

  "Secrets of a Nimble Giant". Interview with Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2009.

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• 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.

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  Keys, Ideas, Execution

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

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  Google, Mind, World

  "Google Guys". Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. September 2004.

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• Technology is an inherent democratizer. Because of the evolution of hardware and software, you’re able to scale up almost anything. It means that in our lifetime everyone may have tools of equal power.

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  Mean, Technology, Tools

  Guest lecture at University of California, Berkeley, October 05, 2005.

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• I feel there’s an existential angst among young people. I didn’t have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.

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  People, Mountain, Existential Angst

  "Google co-founder Sergey Brin wants more computers in schools" by Dan Fost, latimesblogs.latimes.com. October 28, 2009.

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• We wouldn't survive if people didn't trust us.

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  People, Ifs

  "The Surprising Humanity of Google Trends" by Jo Fraser, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2016.

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• Currently we don't have plans on conquering the world.

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  World, Funny Business, Conquer

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• As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

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  Work, Technology, Differences

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• It's important not to overstate the benefits of ideas. Quite frankly, I know it's kind of a romantic notion that you're just going to have this one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great. But the fact is that coming up with an idea is the least important part of creating something great. It has to be the right idea and have good taste, but the execution and delivery are what's key.

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  Business, Ideas, Creating

  "Secrets of a Nimble Giant". Interview with Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2009.

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• Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.

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  Success, Differences, Google

  "Persons of the Week: Larry Page and Sergey Brin" by Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 20, 2004.

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• 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.

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  Growing Up, Self Confidence, Math

  "Sergey Brin’s Take On Technology’s ‘Downside’ For Kids", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Entrepreneur, Google, Innovation

  "Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin" by Ian Katz, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2012.

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• Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.

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  Powerful, Business, Technology

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• The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.

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  Names, Google, Internet

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• If you had all the world's information directly attached to your brain, or an artificial brain that was smarter than your brain, you'd be better off.

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  Brain, World, Information

  "All Eyes On Google". Newsweek Interview, www.newsweek.com. March 28, 2004.

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• It's not enough not to be evil. We also actively try to be good.

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  Evil, Trying, Enough

  "Playboy Interview: Google Guys". Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. July 27, 2009.

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• We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.

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  People, Pages, Equal

  Lecture at UC Berkeley, California, October 05, 2005.

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• My vision when we started Google 15 years ago was that eventually you wouldn't have to have a search query at all. You'd just have information come to you as you needed it. And Google Glass is now, 15 years later, sort of the first form factor that I think can deliver that vision.

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  Technology, Thinking, Glasses

  "Google's Sergey Brin: smartphones are 'emasculating'" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2013.

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• We are focused on features, not products. We eliminated future products that would have made the complexity problem worse. We don't want to have 20 different products that work in 20 different ways. I was getting lost at our site keeping track of everything. I would rather have a smaller set of products that have a shared set of features.

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  Success, Business, Track

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• 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.

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  People, Growing, Might

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