Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin
Sergey Mikhaylovich Brinis a Russian-born American computer scientist, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Together with Larry Page, he co-founded Google. Today, Brin serves as President of Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc. According to Forbes List February 2016, he is jointly one of three people listed as 11th richest in the world, with a net worth of US$39.2 billion...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth21 August 1973
CityMoscow, Russia
CountryUnited States of America
We just want to have great people working for us.
This was a decision we reached after a number of years speaking to the human rights groups, and specifically people who really cared about China on human rights. I understand why other people might have other views.
I totally understand that people are upset about it and I think that is a reasonable point of view to take.
I know a lot of people are upset by our decision but it is something we have deliberated for a number of years.
We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world.
We wouldn't survive if people didn't trust us.
I feel there’s an existential angst among young people. I didn’t have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.
Before Google, I don't think people put much effort into the ordering of results. You might get a couple thouand results for a query. We saw that a thousand results weren't necessarily as useful as 10 good ones.
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.
People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.
Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don’t know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.
In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won't kill people.
Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.
As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.