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If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things.

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Larry Page
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: March 26
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Optimism is important. You have to be a little silly about the goals you are going to set. There is a phrase I learned in college called, 'having a healthy disregard for the impossible.' That is a really good phrase. You should try to do things that most people would not do.
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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?
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Every story I read about Google is about us vs some other company, or something else, and I really don't find that interesting. We should be building great things that don't exist. Being negative is not how we make progress.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.
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We should be focusing on building things that do not exist.
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Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.
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Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life.
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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.
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Being negative is not how we make progress, and the most important things are not zero sum.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it.
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People are starving in the world, not because we don't have enough food, but because we're not organized. And computers are part of that.
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If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.
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The Web is a vast collection of completely uncontrolled heterogeneous documents.
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