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If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best.
Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.
Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example.
Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.
I spend most of my time assuming the world is not ready for the technology revolution that will be happening to them soon.
If you thought when you got your job at 20 that it would never change you were misinformed. Retrain yourself to be curious.
I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.
People are building communities of people who use video. They're sharing them. YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly.
I used to say that you'll have 10 IP address on your body... and it looks like that's going to happen through medical monitoring.
The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information.
Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that.
Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.
I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.
The more broadband we can get globally, the better. It's better for the world; it's better for our advertisers; it's better for Google.
Each country makes a different decision on adult pornography, but the good news is that even governments you hate, hate child pornography.
And the more broadband we can get globally, the better. It's better for the world; it's better for our advertisers; it's better for Google.
There clearly are cases where evil people exist, but you don't have to violate the privacy of every single citizen of America to find them.
In a world where everything is remembered and everything is kept forever, you need to live for the future and things you really care about.
We're about to see an acceleration in technological platforms that, for marketers, will be on a scale rivalled only by the arrival of color TV.
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.
Bitcoin is a remarkable cryptographic achievement and the ability to create something which is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value
It's because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional resources.
Around 400 million people in the last year got a smartphone. If you think that’s a big deal, imagine the impact on that person in the developing world.
There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature of our society.
In whatever number of years I have on Earth, I think that promoting the values of free expression, the openness of the Internet, that's the best use of my time.
People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.
It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence at something.
In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it.
I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving.
When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.
I use Google+, and I find the quality of the comments are very sophisticated because there is more trust inside of Google+ than there is inside of Twitter and Facebook, for example.
I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.
The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.
When companies are growing quickly and they are having a lot of impact, careers take care of themselves.... If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on.
Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will spread, and it will change those societies in very dramatic ways.
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.'
The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other.
To me, what you want to do is find a way to let this play out between the virtual world and the physical world...Ultimately, I think society will get there. It will be messy, but we'll get there.
At Google, operations are not just an afterthought: they are critical to the company's success, and we want to have just as much effort and creativity in this domain as in new product development.
I had always assumed that the right way to do it was to these engineers, put them in offices by themselves with doors that they could close so they could think deep thoughts. This is a terrible idea.
The core problem is that the world is full of people who would like to take 99 per cent of the information that's on the Internet, and eliminate 1 per cent. Everyone has their own thing they don't like.
We used to think that the enterprise was the hardest customer to satisfy, but we were wrong. It turns out, consumers are harder than the enterprise because the consumer will not give you a second chance.
The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media.
Google's architectural model around broadband and services and so forth plays very well to the powerful devices and services Apple is doing. We're a perfect back end to the problems that they're trying to solve.
If you think about YouTube, YouTube is a 'searching the world's videos' problem, right? They all have to be there, but how do you find them? What I guess I'm trying to say is that search is still the killer app.
I think it's pretty clear that the Internet as a whole has not had a strong notion of identity. And identity means, 'Who am I?' Fundamentally, what Facebook has done has built a way to figure out who people are.
We don't have a traditional strategy process, planning process like you'd find in traditional technical companies. It allows Google to innovate very, very quickly, which I think is a real strength of the company.
I think it's pretty clear that the internet as a whole has not had a strong notion of identity. And identity means, 'Who am I?' Fundamentally, what Facebook has done has built a way to figure out who people are...