Sergey Brin quotes

Sergey Brin is a Russian-born American computer scientist and entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder of Google. His innovations have fundamentally transformed the way people access and use information worldwide. He continues to play a significant role in technology and philanthropy. Here are 20 of his quotes:

Technology is an inherent democratizer. Because of the evolution of hardware and software, you're able to scale up almost anything. It means that in our lifetime everyone may have tools of equal power.

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... whenever I have met with our elected officials they are invariably thoughtful, well-meaning people. And yet collectively 90% of their effort seems to be focused on how to stick it to the other party.

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When it's too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley.

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If what you're doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough.

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Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.

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The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation.

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Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don't know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.

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Having come from a totalitarian country, the Soviet Union, and having seen the hardships that my family endured–both while there and trying to leave-I certainly am particularly sensitive to the stifling of individual liberties.

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You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.

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When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.

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Russia is Nigeria with snow. Do you really want a bunch of criminal cowboys controlling the world's energy supply?

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Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.

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But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.

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Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.

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Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine.

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I feel there's an existential angst among young people. I didn't have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.

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As for "Don't be evil," we have tried to define precisely what it means to be a force for good-always do the right, ethical thing. Ultimately, "Don't be evil" seems the easiest way to summarize it.

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We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world.

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