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Larry Page

Larry Page

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

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

Highlights

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
theverge.com2013-05-15Source
And that’s good, we don’t want to change the world. But maybe we can set aside a part of the world.
theverge.com2013-05-15Source
There are many exciting things you could do that are illegal or not allowed by regulation,
theverge.com2013-05-15Source
In some sense, I feel like music training led to the high-speed legacy of Google for me
en.wikipedia.orgSource
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.orgSource
In music, you're very cognizant of time. Time is like the primary thing
en.wikipedia.orgSource
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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
theverge.com2013-05-15Source
And that’s good, we don’t want to change the world. But maybe we can set aside a part of the world.
theverge.com2013-05-15Source
There are many exciting things you could do that are illegal or not allowed by regulation,
theverge.com2013-05-15Source
In some sense, I feel like music training led to the high-speed legacy of Google for me
en.wikipedia.orgSource
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.orgSource
In music, you're very cognizant of time. Time is like the primary thing
en.wikipedia.orgSource
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.
theverge.com2013-05-15Source
we haven’t adapted systems to deal with that.
theverge.com2013-05-15Source
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.orgSource

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