Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn’t know where you are. It doesn’t know what you’re doing. It doesn’t know what you know. Larry Page Read Quote
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. Larry Page Read Quote
Over time, our emerging high-usage products will likely generate significant new revenue streams for Google as well as for our partners, just as search does today. Larry Page Read Quote
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. Larry Page Read Quote
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. Larry Page Read Quote
For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can’t have privacy without security. Larry Page Read Quote
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. Larry Page Read Quote
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. Larry Page Read Quote
If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that’s not going to promote healthiness. Larry Page Read Quote
Basically, our goal is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Larry Page Read Quote
