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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.'

I Had A Rule That I Had To Go To Bed Before The Sun Came Up. So I Used To Look Up The Sunrise Times Because I Thought It Would Be Bad Karma To Be Going To Bed As Dawn Was Arriving.

I'm Able To Bring Business Expertise But, More Importantly, Operating Experience. The People Here At Google Are Young. Every Day There Are Lots Of New Challenges. I Keep Things Focused. The Speech I Give Everyday Is: "this Is What We Do. Is What You Are Doing Consistent With That, And Does It Change The World?"

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.

The Best Thing That Would Happen Is For Facebook To Open Up Its Data. Failing That, There Are Other Ways To Get That Information.