Innovation Quotes

I want to push the envelope for what's possible for an innovative company with large resources.

We didn't start out to build a search engine at all.

In late 1995, I started collecting the links on the Web, because my advisor and I decided that would be a good thing to do. We didn't know exactly what I was going to do with it, but it seemed like no one was really looking at the links on the Web - which pages link to which pages.

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.

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."

I think it sounds stupid if you have this big company, and you can only do five things. I think it's also not very good for the employees. Because then, you have 30,000 employees and they're all doing the same thing, which isn't very exciting for them.

If you look at things like Google Now also. Maybe you want to just have [a question] answered for you before you ask it.

You must first be willing to fail - and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.

New startups embody the creativity, the innovation of young people, and for me, it was and is a very worthwhile experience to interact with them.

I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.

If there are challenges thrown across, then some interesting, innovative solutions are found. Without challenges, the tendency is to go on the same way.

If a founder has passion and innovation, he needs to be supported. I am more intuitive than a numbers person, and I recognise that not all investments are going to be positive. Some may fail, and some may have problems for other reasons. That is life.

To innovate, you need a spirit of inquiry.

Innovation is a continuous process, and it can happen anywhere.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all but goes on making his own business better all the time.

The most dangerous notion a young man can acquire is that there is no more room for originality. There is no large room for anything else.

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam in the history we make today.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.