Sergey Brin

Google co-founder

Contemporary influential 66 sayings

Sayings by Sergey Brin

I feel like I'm not working hard enough if I'm not failing sometimes.

2008 — Google Founders' Interview
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Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.

2013 — Interview with The Guardian
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We knew that Google was going to get better every single day as we worked on it, and we knew that sooner or later, everyone was going to try it.

2005 — Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture
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Technology is a democratizing force.

2010 — World Economic Forum
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You can be serious without a suit.

2005 — Describing Google's culture
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We want Google to be the third half of your brain.

2003 — Google press event
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Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.

2004 — Interview with Playboy
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It's best to do one thing really, really well.

2004 — Google's IPO letter
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

2013 — Interview with The Guardian
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The perfect search engine would understand exactly what you mean and give back exactly what you want.

2000 — Google Founders' Interview
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I feel like I'm missing something if I'm not working on something crazy.

2013 — Google X lab interview
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The only way you can discover the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

2012 — Google I/O conference
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We don't always know what we want. But the computer does.

2014 — Discussing AI
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The idea was not to make a search engine. The idea was to make AI.

2017 — AI conference
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I feel like I'm getting dumber every year because the computers are getting smarter.

2015 — Public lecture
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I don't know why people wouldn't want to record everything.

2013 — Discussing wearable tech
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We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

2010 — World Economic Forum
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The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.

2012 — Advice to entrepreneurs
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Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.

2013 — Google X lab interview
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I feel like information is the oxygen of the modern age.

2010 — Public lecture
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