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Lawrence Edward Page (born March 26, 1973) is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin.

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How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?

Doe, Exciting, Company, Work, Roughly, Come

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.

Dream, Morning, Inspiration, Middle, Dreaming

Lots of companies don’t succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future. I try to focus on that: What is the future really going to be? And how do we create it? And how do we power our organization to really focus on that and really drive it at a high rate? When I was working on Android, I felt guilty. It wasn’t what we were working on, it was a start-up, and I felt guilty. That was stupid! It was the future.

Create, Focus, Guilty, Organization, Power, Stupid

You can be serious without a suit

Suits, Serious, Suit

It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. . . . Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.

Inspirational, Dream, Crazy, Competition, Easier, Dreams

We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served - as shareholders and in all other ways - by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company.

Believe, Business, Good, Long, Served

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. I know that sounds completely nuts. But, since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. There are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name. They all travel as if they are pack dogs and stick to each other like glue. The best people want to work the big challenges.

Graduation, Dream, Dog, Pack, Sounds, Completely

I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research.

Algorithms, Instead, Research, See, Simple

The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.

Ask, Computer, Interesting, Stars, Technology, Thinking

As a precaution, we’re making machines extremely heavy with very tiny legs.

Legs, Machines, Making, Precaution, Tiny

Over time, it's becoming more and more understood by people that we're acting in their interests. And that's a very, very powerful thing for our brand.

Interests, People, Powerful, Technology, Thing, Understood

As devices multiply and usage changes (many users coming online today may never use a desktop machine), it becomes more and more important to ensure that people can access all of their stuff anywhere.

Ensure, Important, Multiply, People, Stuff, Technology

Most of us carry at least one device, all the time, every day. In fact many of us would feel naked without our smartphone. It's hardly surprising mobile search queries - and mobile commerce - are growing dramatically across the world.

Technology, Smartphones, Facts, Naked, Fact, Growing

It's very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.

Failing, Enough, Aim High, Completely, Fail

The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think.

Away, Differences, Giving, Love, Thinking, Whole

We should be building great things that don't exist

Building, Exist, Great Things, Should, Things

We should be focusing on building things that do not exist.

Building, Building Things, Exist, Focusing, Should

You need to get one thing done well, or else you don't have permission to do anything else.

Done, Execution, Needs, Permission, Thing

Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the Web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. We're nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we work on.

Giving, Google, Would Be, Engine, Version, Nowhere

Part of our brand is that we're pretty understated in what we do. If you look at other technology companies, they might preannounce things, and it will be a couple years before they really happen, and they don't happen in the way they said they would.

Brand, Couple, Technology, Understated, Years

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