I like going to Burning Man, for example. That's an environment where people can try out different things.
Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it!
Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.
Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.
If you're not doing some things that are crazy, then you're doing the wrong things.
Sergey and I founded Google because we're super optimistic about the potential for technology to make the world a better place.
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!
If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
Google CEO
You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.