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103 Computer scientist Quotes

Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

Accessible Basically Goal Information
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I can't really comment on rumors.
Comment Really Rumors
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

Always Basically Engine Everything
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

Few Managers Many Rather
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It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.

Calculate Circular Complicated Importance
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

Beach Company Ended Long Time
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If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

Changing Changing The World Excited Get
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.

Access Care Driving Going
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If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

Advances Around Ask Been
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It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

Better Clean Clean Energy Energy
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

Believe Big Business Change
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Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.
Always Area Big Big Companies
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I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.

Burning Deploy Effect Environment
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Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.

Computer Computing Doing Kind
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

Change Incremental Need Revolutionary
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For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

About Both Important Me
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We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.

About Conversation Democracy Going
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Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

Both Combine Company Electric
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Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.
Companies Fundamentally Future Lots
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I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.

Artistic Company Component Important
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We want to build technology that everybody loves using, and that affects everyone. We want to create beautiful, intuitive services and technologies that are so incredibly useful that people use them twice a day. Like they use a toothbrush. There aren't that many things people use twice a day.

Affects Beautiful Build Create
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You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.

Best Best Way Come Companies
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We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.

Best Customers Everyone Evil
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I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

Competition Crazy Dreams Easier
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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

Bed Dream Dreaming Gone
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I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly.

Always Annoying Believed Communication
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You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.
Google Great May Still
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The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job - that just doesn't make any sense to me. That can't be the right answer.

Answer Any Everyone Idea
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We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.

Because Boring Building Change
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If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.

Any Car Discipline Interested
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Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.

Sometime The people Can imagine Anything
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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

Science Differential equation Boundary condition
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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

Computer Called intelligent Deceive Human
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The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

The idea Digital computers Machines Intended
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I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don't accept it with much enthusiasm either awake or in the dreams.

Dream indicating Clearly Being hetero Enthusiasm
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I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature could not be permanent.

Permanent relationship Feel inclined Reject anything Nature
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Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.

Like violence Feels good Human Deeply satisfying
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Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.

Programming Skill Best acquired Practice
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Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.

Produce Programme Stimulate Adult mind
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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields

May hope Machines Will eventually compete Men
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Best way Predict The future Invent it
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If businesses could find a way to invent 'agriculture,' we could put the world back together and all would prosper.

Business Could find Invent Agriculture
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Protean nature Computer Act like Machine
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If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.

Don't fail Percent The time Aiming high
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

People worry Artificial intelligence Feel inferior Right mind
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

Technology Is anything Wasn't around Were born
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.

Science requires Society People Good thinkers
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation.

Few people Believe something Normal
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.

The future Laid out Can decide Extent
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School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view

School One point View Teacher has
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