American business magnate & Google co-founder (1973- )
I think that artificial intelligence will ultimately be a force for good in the world. I also think that it's inevitable that it will take a significant share of jobs, and therefore the world will need to adapt to that.
SERGEY BRIN
interview with Khosla Ventures, 2017
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
Playboy, September 2004
We're not trying to replace human intelligence. We're trying to augment it. We're trying to make it better.
SERGEY BRIN
speech at the World Economic Forum, 2019
Innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.
SERGEY BRIN
interview, Newsweek, 2008
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
lecture at UC Berkeley, October 5, 2005
We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are -- but not web pages.
SERGEY BRIN
lecture at UC Berkeley, October 5, 2005
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
Playboy, September 2004
Artificial intelligence is one of the most profound things we're working on as humanity. It's more profound than fire or electricity.
SERGEY BRIN
interview with Alphabet, 2019
Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind.
SERGEY BRIN
Playboy, September 2004
We want Google to be the third half of your brain.
SERGEY BRIN
introducing Google Instant, September 8, 2010
We believe that advertising is just another form of information, and consumers should be able to get that information in whatever form they like.
SERGEY BRIN
keynote speech at Search Engine Strategies, 2005
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
Search Engine Strategies conference, August 2003
Google is all about getting the right information to people quickly, easily, cheaply -- and for free. We serve the world -- all countries, at least 100 different languages. It's a powerful service that most people probably couldn't have dreamed of 20 years ago. It's available to the rich, the poor, street children in Cambodia, stock traders on Wall Street -- basically everybody. It's very democratic.
SERGEY BRIN
Playboy, September 2004
The thing that makes me excited about cryptocurrency is that it is something that is changing the world, and it's changing it in a way that is fundamentally different from what has come before.
SERGEY BRIN
speaking at a blockchain conference in Morocco, 2018
Technology is always going to move forward. It's always going to be changing. It's always going to be disruptive.
SERGEY BRIN
interview, New York Times, 2016
It has to be the right idea and have good taste, but the execution and delivery are what's key.
SERGEY BRIN
interview, The Guardian, June 17, 2009
Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the power of the individual to try something new.
SERGEY BRIN
interview, Wired, 2011
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.
SERGEY BRIN
"Without Sergey Brin, Google has lost its healthy fear of authoritarianism", Quartz, August 6, 2018
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
"Google's Sergey Brin calls on U.S. politicians to ditch their parties", Dvice, November 6, 2012
The biggest problem in the world is not inequality. It's ignorance. It's the lack of access to education and information.
SERGEY BRIN
speech at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, 2016