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It's not enough not to be evil. We also actively try to be good.

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Sergey Brin
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 21
Business Executive
Computer Scientist
Inventor
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin
Sergey Mikhailovich Brin
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Currently we don't have plans on conquering the world.
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Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind.
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As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.
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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.
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The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.
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We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world.
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If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough
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