You need to get one thing done well, or else you don't have permission to do anything else. Larry Page More Quotes by Larry Page More Quotes From Larry Page You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people. Larry Page technologyknowingreality If we are not trusted, we have no business. Larry Page trustedifsinspirational My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company. Larry Page irongrandfatherthinking You can be serious without a suit Larry Page suitsserious I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. I know that sounds completely nuts. But, since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. There are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name. They all travel as if they are pack dogs and stick to each other like glue. The best people want to work the big challenges. Larry Page dogdreamgraduation Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know. Larry Page where-you-arecomputerkind 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. Larry Page computerpeopleworld Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Larry Page goalworldknowledge I like going to Burning Man, for example. That's an environment where people can try out different things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out some new things and figure out what is the effect on society, what's the effect on people, without having to deploy kind of into the normal world. Larry Page should-havementhinking You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people. Larry Page innovationfocuspeople Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life. Larry Page technologyhard-workpeople Excellence matters, and technology advances so fast that the potential for improvement is tremendous. So, since becoming CEO again, I've pushed hard to increase our velocity, improve our execution, and focus on the big bets that will make a difference in the world. Larry Page differencestechnologyfocus Sergey and I founded Google because we're super optimisitc about the potential for technology to make the world a better place. Think about how many people are underserved by transportation today, like those with disabilities, and how self driving cars will transform their lives. Or the wasted time you sit in your car every day commuting to and from work. Or the deaths and injuries that could be avoided. Larry Page optimistictechnologythinking You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible. Larry Page googlemaythinking 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. Larry Page impactenergypeople Over time, it's becoming more and more understood by people that we're acting in their interests. And that's a very, very powerful thing for our brand. Larry Page technologypowerfulpeople I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research. Larry Page algorithmsresearchsimple Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change. Larry Page revolutionarytechnologyneeds One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As computer scientists, we call that artificial intelligence. Larry Page goalwantworld We really care about our brand. We really want it to stand for high quality. We want people to be excited about it, for it to be fun. Larry Page technologyfunpeople
