"I don't know how long I would've stayed, to be honest."

“Have a healthy disregard for the impossible.”

“If you look at things like Google Now also. Maybe you want to just have answered for you before you ask it.”

“Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it”

“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.”

“It's hard to keep things moving. And that's always a big trick. I think for me, the key is setting really big goals. And, you know, with YouTube, I think we've had tremendous leadership, both with the founders and now with Salar, who's been running it.”

“The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.”