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.

Sergey also came on very early, probably in late '95 or early '96, and was really interested in the data mining part. Basically, we thought, "Oh, we should be able to make a better search engine."

Stanford would be first. You can take universities and just rank them, and they come out in the order you'd expect. So we thought, "This is really interesting. This thing really works. We should use it for search." So I started building a search engine.

People are starving in the world, not because we don't have enough food, but because we're not organized. And computers are part of that.

Find the leverage in the world so you can be truly lazy.

Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.