Ruth Porat

“It’s models, it’s chips, it’s research, and it’s the application across all of our platforms,”

“One area we care immensely about is delivering for everyone in a high-quality way, especially when models were hallucinating,”

“If you wake up in the middle of the night and your child has a fever, and you want to give Tylenol, it better be right. Google stands for quality, and that was very important to us.”

“People come into their careers with a preordained notion of what work they're going to do. Given that the world is dynamic, not static, they miss seeing things that otherwise might be extraordinary.”

“A star is someone who is in my face, because I want them to challenge me in different ways,”

“I don't want people who process. I want people who think,”

“The next big thing starts with search,”

“It’s about a radical rethink of ‘What is your business?’”

“There’s an overused expression [that is meaningful nonetheless]: ‘You’re not going to lose to AI; you’re going to lose to the person who is using AI.’”

“You do not want to be the one that’s waking up too late and realizing that you’re behind in your industry,”

“Google started as ‘10 blue links’ and then evolved to tech search, then to voice search, and now multimodal search,”

“I always said, 'What is my highest and best use?'”

“Sometimes I feel like a Morgan Stanley trainee,”