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The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.

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Think, Every Day, I Think, Place

I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.

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Will, Come, Very, Coexist

Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invented an advertising business which has provided great economics that allows us to build the servers, hire the employees, create value.

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Business, Everybody, Which, By-Product

The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other.

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Country, Other, Been, Sending

The policy of America to deny visas to technically trained people in the U.S. and shipped to other countries, where they create companies that compete with America, has to be the stupidest policy of all the U.S. government policies.

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Compete, Other, Deny, Stupidest

The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media.

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Been, About, Awful Lot, Yahoo

There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It's constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.

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Temporary, Needs, Tech, Respected

People are building communities of people who use video. They're sharing them. YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly.

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Grow, YouTube, Very, Traffic

Remember, when you go to YouTube, you do a search. When you go to Google, you do a search. As we get the search integrated between YouTube and Google, which we're working on, it will drive a lot of traffic into both places. So the trick, overall, is generating more searches, more uses of Google.

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YouTube, Remember When, Traffic

YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly. Video is something that we think is going to be embedded everywhere. And it makes sense, from Google's perspective, to be the operator of the largest site that contains all that video.

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Think, YouTube, Very, Traffic

And the more broadband we can get globally, the better. It's better for the world; it's better for our advertisers; it's better for Google.

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World, Better, More, Broadband

The more broadband we can get globally, the better. It's better for the world; it's better for our advertisers; it's better for Google.

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World, Better, More, Broadband

One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It's simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who's online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy.

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Advertising, Been, Buy, Broadband

Google's architectural model around broadband and services and so forth plays very well to the powerful devices and services Apple is doing. We're a perfect back end to the problems that they're trying to solve.

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Doing, Very, Plays, Broadband

Silicon Valley's involvement with Washington dates from one event, which was John Scully - who was the CEO of Apple - had dinner with President Clinton and Vice President Gore in 1993. And we're all going, like, 'What's going on? Why would we have dinner with the president?'

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Why, Had, President Clinton, Vice President

The issues of wireless versus wireline gets very messy. And that's really an FCC issue, not a Google issue.

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Very, Issue, FCC, Versus

I do want to emphasize that we've seen an explosion in the use of Google Maps and Google Earth for education. The earth is a special place. It is our home and it's why we're all here. And the ability to see what's really going on the earth, the good stuff and the bad stuff, at the level that you can, is phenomenal.

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Education, Bad, Here, Phenomenal

People who bet against the Internet, who think that somehow this change is just a generational shift, miss that it is a fundamental reorganizing of the power of the end user. The Internet brings tremendous tools to the end user, and that end user is going to use them.

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Think, Against, Going, Generational

It's very difficult for governments to dominate the Internet because it's so difficult to control. People want to be free. People want to hear multiple voices. They want to make their own decisions. And people who see things will report things.

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Own, Very, Governments, Report

I think it's pretty clear that the Internet as a whole has not had a strong notion of identity. And identity means, 'Who am I?' Fundamentally, what Facebook has done has built a way to figure out who people are.

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Strong, I Think, Whole, Who Am I

If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.

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World War I, Couple, Hundred, Hundred Years

I used to say that you'll have 10 IP address on your body... and it looks like that's going to happen through medical monitoring.

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Medical, Through, Happen, IP

I think of Google as a set of overlapping things. It's a consumer platform, consumer phenomenon of which search is its fundamental activity, but there are many other things you can do than search... I think of Google as an advertising company who services the broader advertising industry in the ways that you know.

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Activity, Other, I Think, Consumer

We used to think that the enterprise was the hardest customer to satisfy, but we were wrong. It turns out, consumers are harder than the enterprise because the consumer will not give you a second chance.

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Second Chance, Think, Give, Consumer

If you think about the history of the PC industry, the PC industry has essentially been nothing but acquisitions by one company or another. Dell is the outlier. Dell built its own culture. They automated themselves to be the most efficient manufacturer.

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Own, Been, Another, Manufacturer

When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.

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Thought, I Remember, Began, Struck

Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently - is largely defined by detailed analytical views and policy choices that are not very good. You know, each policy choice has a winner and a loser, right? Somebody's ox is getting gored.

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Good, Analytical, Very, Defined

There's a set of people who are intrinsic oppositionists to everything Google does.

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Google, Set, Does, Intrinsic

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

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Learn, Still, Best Way, Sitting

A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd say, 'Boy, that's interesting. Let's add some more engineers.'

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More, Some, Add, Screwing

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