Sergey Brin is an internet entrepreneur and the co-founder of Google. He is also known for co-founding Alphabet Inc. and co-creating PageRank. As one of the top ten richest people in the world, Brin has received many awards and accolades. With a lifetime of success behind him, here is a look at some of the most famous Sergey Brin quotes to encourage and inspire you today.
Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.
– Sergey Brin
As we go forward, I hope we’re going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.
– Sergey Brin
Before Google, I don’t think people put much effort into the ordering of results. You might get a couple thousand results for a query. We saw that a thousand results weren’t necessarily as useful as 10 good ones.
– Sergey Brin
Coming up with an idea is the least important part of creating something great. It has to be the right idea and have good taste, but the execution and delivery are what’s key.
– Sergey Brin
Currently we don’t have plans on conquering the world.
– Sergey Brin
Generally, health is just so heavily regulated. It’s just a painful business to be in. It’s just not necessarily how I want to spend my time.
– Sergey Brin
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.
– Sergey Brin
I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself – as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal.
– Sergey Brin
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.
– Sergey Brin
I had no dreams of such economic success. You should have fun and not be so weighed down by expectations.
– Sergey Brin
I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that’s what this organization does.
– Sergey Brin
I’d like to get to a state where people think that if you’ve Googled something, you’ve researched it, and otherwise haven’t, and that’s it.
– Sergey Brin
If Google Books is successful, others will follow.
– Sergey Brin
If I were seriously interested in something important to me, I wouldn’t just click on the first search result, read it and take it as God’s word.
– Sergey Brin
If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it’s probably not transformative enough.
– Sergey Brin
If you had all the world’s information directly attached to your brain, or an artificial brain that was smarter than your brain, you’d be better off.
– Sergey Brin
In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won’t kill people.
– Sergey Brin
It is ironic since 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.
– Sergey Brin
It’s clear there’s a lot of room for improvement, there’s no inherent ceiling we’re hitting up on.
– Sergey Brin
It’s a romantic notion that you’re going to have one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great… but the execution and delivery are what’s key.
– Sergey Brin
It’s not enough not to be evil. We also actively try to be good.
– Sergey Brin
Obviously, everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.
– Sergey Brin
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.
– Sergey Brin
People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.
– Sergey Brin
Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.
– Sergey Brin
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.
– Sergey Brin
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.
– Sergey Brin
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.
– Sergey Brin
The name was supposed to be ‘Googol,’ which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.
– Sergey Brin
The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.
– Sergey Brin
The revolution in deep nets has been very profound. It definitely surprised me, even though I was sitting right there.
– Sergey Brin
To me, this is about preserving history and making it available to everyone.
– Sergey Brin
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.
– Sergey Brin
Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.
– Sergey Brin
Too many rules stifle innovation.
– Sergey Brin
Ultimately you want to have the entire world’s knowledge connected directly to your mind.
– Sergey Brin
We are currently not planning on conquering the world.
– Sergey Brin
We are focused on features, not products. We eliminated future products that would have made the complexity problem worse. We don’t want to have 20 different products that work in 20 different ways. I was getting lost at our site keeping track of everything. I would rather have a smaller set of products that have a shared set of features.
– Sergey Brin
We believed we could build a better search. We had a simple idea that not all pages are created equal. Some are more important.
– Sergey Brin
We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.
– Sergey Brin
We deal with all varieties of information. Somebody’s always upset no matter what we do. We have to make a decision; otherwise there’s a never-ending debate.
– Sergey Brin
We do lots of stuff. The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.
– Sergey Brin
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.
– Sergey Brin
We just want to have great people working for us.
– Sergey Brin
We saw that a thousand results weren’t necessarily as useful as 10 good ones.
– Sergey Brin
We want Google to be the third half of your brain.
– Sergey Brin
We will make machines that can reason, think and do things better than we can.
– Sergey Brin
We wouldn’t survive if people didn’t trust us.
– Sergey Brin
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.
– Sergey Brin
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.
– Sergey Brin
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.
