Sergey Brin Quotes

“Anything you can imagine probably is doable, you just have to imagine it and work on it.”

“We should be building great things that don't exist.”

“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.”

“Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.”

“We want Google to be the third half of your brain.”

“Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.”

“Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.”

“If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough.”

“My goal is for Google to lead, not follow.”

“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.”

“Sergey is pretty social; he likes meeting people. I thought he was pretty obnoxious. He had really strong opinions about things, and I guess I did, too.”

“Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one.”

“I guess I would say in some ways we for sure messed up in that we underinvested and sort of didn't take it as seriously as we should have, say eight years ago when we published the transformer paper.”

“I retired like a month before COVID hit. In theory, yeah. And I was like, you know, this has been good. I want to do something else. I want to hang out in cafes, read physics books. And then like a month later I was like, that's not really happening.”

“Historically, if you look at things like the N-body problem and simulating gravitational bodies and things like that, as you plot it, the algorithmic advances have actually beaten out the computational advances, even with Moore's law.”

“We won't 'smooth' quarterly or annual results: If earnings figures are lumpy when they reach headquarters, they will be lumpy when they reach you.”

“If I'd stayed retired, I think that would've been a big mistake.”

“I would encourage young folks to take chances and pursue their dreams. And try to silence out the voices who say there are a thousand start ups trying to do the same thing.”