"We started Google because we were interested in building a better search engine, not because we were interested in building a company."

"I think it's important to be a generalist, not a specialist."

"You know you're doing something right when people start complaining about it."

"We're trying to build things that are going to last."

"We basically got a bunch of PCs, put them in a cupboard, and tried to connect them together. That was our first data center."