Lawrence Edward Page (born March 26, 1973) is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin.
If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
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.
You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.
We are excited about Internet access in general. With better access to the Internet, people do more searches.
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.
I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus.
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.
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.
Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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.
We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.
If we are not trusted, we have no business.
Our goal is long-term growth in revenue and absolute profit. . so we invest aggressively in future innovation while tightly managing our short-term costs.
We try to, when you come to Google, fulfill that need that you have as quickly as possible.
Find the leverage in the world so you can be truly lazy.
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.
We really care about our brand. We really want it to stand for high quality. We want people to be excited about it, for it to be fun.
We understand the need to balance our short- and longer-term needs because our revenue is the engine that funds all our innovation. But 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.
The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.
We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.