The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.
You can make money without doing evil.
Too many rules will stifle innovation.
I'd like to get to a state where people think that if you've Googled something, you've researched it, and otherwise haven't, and that's it.
We deal with all varieties of information. Somebody's always upset no matter what we do. We have to make a decision; otherwise there's a never-ending debate.
Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.
As for "Don't be evil," we have tried to define precisely what it means to be a force for good-always do the right, ethical thing. Ultimately, "Don't be evil" seems the easiest way to summarize it.
Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.
I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.
I've wanted to direct for a long time, but it had to be a story I wanted to tell. The writer's job is to find the story that he should tell.
There's nothing more horrifying than the possibility or the idea that you will just fade away into obscurity.