We just wanted to build a search engine that worked.

Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical.

In the northern darkness there is a fish called Kun. The Kun is so vast one cannot tell how many thousands of li it spans. It transforms into a bird called Peng. The back of the Peng is so vast one cannot tell how many thousands of li it spans.

-- Zhuang Zhou

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as possible for a better solution.

-- René Descartes

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.

-- Henry Ford

Ask why five times.

-- Sakichi Toyoda

Invert, always invert.

-- Charlie Munger

It's as easy to do something big as it is to do something small, so reach for a fantasy worthy of a pursuit and, if it's a real fantasy, you'll get part of the way there.

-- Stephen A. Schwarzman