I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.
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I just sort of kept having ideas. We had a lot of magazines lying around our house. It was kind of messy. So you kind of read stuff all the time, and I would read Popular Science and things like that. I just got interested in stuff, I guess, technology and how devices work.
From a very early age, I also realized I wanted to invent things. So I became really interested in technology and also then, soon after, in business, because I figured that inventing things wasn't any good; you really had to get them out into the world and have people use them to have any effect.
You can make an internet company with 10 people and it can have billions of users. It doesn't take much capital and it makes a lot of money - a really, really lot of money - so it's natural for everyone to focus on those kinds of things.
We have always tried to concentrate on the long term, and to place bets on technology we believe will have a significant impact over time.
Sergey and I founded Google because we're super optimistic about the potential for technology to make the world a better place.
Excellence matters, and technology advances so fast that the potential for improvement is tremendous.
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