"Playing catch-up with the competition can only ever help you make incremental gains. It will never help you create something new."

“Ultimately, application vendors are driven by volume, and volume is favored by the open approach Google is taking. There are so many manufacturers working so hard to distribute Android phones globally that whether you like or not … you will want to develop for that platform, and perhaps even first.”

“We have always been the leader in security and in encryption. Our systems are far more secure and encrypted than anyone else, including Apple. They're catching up, which is great.”

“Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that.”

“By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded.”

“Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences...”

“Everyone understands climate change is occurring and the people who oppose it are really hurting our children and our grandchildren and making the world a much worse place. And so we should not be aligned with such people — they're just, they're just literally lying.”