Quotes By Larry Page

For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

We want to build technology that everybody loves using, and that affects everyone. We want to create beautiful, intuitive services and technologies that are so incredibly useful that people use them twice a day. Like they use a toothbrush. There aren't that many things people use twice a day.

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.

You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

I really like using my Samsung (005930:KS) tablet. I previously used the Motorola Xoom for a while and liked that.

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. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

It's very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.

You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.

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

You can be serious without a suit.

Optimism is important. You have to be a little silly about the goals you are going to set. There is a phrase I learned in college called, 'having a healthy disregard for the impossible.' That is a really good phrase. You should try to do things that most people would not do.

There are basically no companies that have good slow decisions. There are only companies that have good fast decisions.

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Google will fulfill its mission only when its search engine is AI-complete. You guys know what that means? That's artificial intelligence.

Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.

If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.