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Larry Page

Larry Page

Tech & Business

Photo: Marcin Mycielski, European Parliament (Stansfield), CC BY-SA 4.0

Larry Page -- Born: 1973-03-26. Occupation: computer scientist. Employer: Google. Position: board of directors member. Education: East Lansing High School. Awards: Computer Pioneer Award.

Born1973-03-26

Occupationcomputer scientist, engineer, entrepreneur

EmployerGoogle

Positionboard of directors member, chief executive officer

EducationEast Lansing High School, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Stanford University, University of Michigan

AwardsComputer Pioneer Award, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Financial Times Person of the Year, Marconi Prize, Seoul Test of Time Award

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“If you type Stanford, you get sort of random pages that mention Stanford. This obviously wasn’t going to work.”
tech.yahoo.com2025-12-22Source
“Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google,”
tech.yahoo.com2025-12-22Source
“Search engines didn’t really understand the notion of which pages were more important,”
tech.yahoo.com2025-12-22Source
“to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
achievement.org2016-07-19Source
“In tech, we should have some safe places where we can try out some new things and figure out what is the effect on society and what is the effect on people, without having to deploy them in the whole world,”
archive.nytimes.com2013-05-15Source
“I think money is more important to them than having any collaboration.”
archive.nytimes.com2013-05-15Source
“We should be building great things that don’t exist. Being negative is not how we make progress, and the most important things are not zero sum.”
archive.nytimes.com2013-05-15Source
“We certainly struggle with people like Microsoft.”
archive.nytimes.com2013-05-15Source
“the pace of change is increasing”
The Verge2013-05-15Source
“And that’s good, we don’t want to change the world. But maybe we can set aside a part of the world.”
The Verge2013-05-15Source
“There are many exciting things you could do that are illegal or not allowed by regulation,”
The Verge2013-05-15Source
“In some sense, I feel like music training led to the high-speed legacy of Google for me”
en.wikipedia.org2026-08-11Source
“from a very early age, I also realized I wanted to invent things. So I became interested in technology and business. Probably from when I was 12, I knew I was going to start a company eventually.”
en.wikipedia.org2026-08-11Source
“In music, you're very cognizant of time. Time is like the primary thing”
en.wikipedia.org2026-08-11Source
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“We’re nowhere near doing that now,”
tech.yahoo.com2025-12-22Source
“We haven’t seen them in any all hands for ages as far as I remember.”
vox.com2019-12-03Source
“some safe places where we can try things and not have to deploy to the entire world.”
The Verge2013-05-15Source
“we haven’t adapted systems to deal with that.”
The Verge2013-05-15Source
“If you think about it from a music point of view, if you're a percussionist, you hit something, it's got to happen in milliseconds, fractions of a second”
en.wikipedia.org2026-08-11Source

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