Larry Page
Co-founder of Google and co-creator of the PageRank algorithm.
Quotes by Larry Page
We're still just scratching the surface of what's possible with AI.
We want to make sure that our products are useful and helpful to people.
Good ideas are always crazy until they're not.
The ultimate search engine would understand everything in the world. It would understand everything that you asked it and give you back the exact right thing instantly.
We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
You want to have a culture where people are comfortable taking risks and willing to fail.
My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society.
Technology should do the hard work so that people can get on with the things that make them the happiest in life.
We're not going to succeed by being the same as everyone else.
I think 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.
You need to be a bit uncomfortable to stay relevant.
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.
Part of our job is to invent new things that no one has ever imagined.
The idea was to create the first modern search engine. We wanted to build something that scaled to the whole web.
I think it's possible for ordinary people to choose to be great.
You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.
Most companies decay slowly over time. They do a little bit worse each year. You have to fight against that.
I worry that something is missing. Something we should be doing that we're not. What is the Google of the future? What is the next big thing?
We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the internet revolution.