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“There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.”

— H. L. Mencken

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H. L. Mencken Quote: “There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.”

“There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.”

— H. L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken Quote: “There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.”

H. L. Mencken Quote: “There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.”

H. L. Mencken Quote: “There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.”

H. L. Mencken Quote: “There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.”

H. L. Mencken Quote: “There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.”

H. L. Mencken Quote: “There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.”

H. L. Mencken Quote: “There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.”

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3. “Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.”

4. “It’s very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.”

5. “You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.”

6. “If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.”

7. “Anything you can imagine probably is doable, you just have to imagine it and work on it.”

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9. “Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.”

10. “Optimism is important. You have to be a little silly about the goals you are going to set. There is a phrase I learned in college called, ‘having a healthy disregard for the impossible.’ That is a really good phrase. You should try to do things that most people would not do.”

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13. “We should be building great things that don’t exist.”

14. “For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can’t have privacy without security.”

15. “Basically, our goal is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.”

16. “There are basically no companies that have good slow decisions. There are only companies that have good fast decisions.”

17. “If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.”

18. “You’re probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.”

19. “Don’t be evil- apparently people like it better than “Be good”.”

20. “Google will fulfill its mission only when its search engine is AI-complete. You guys know what that means? That’s artificial intelligence.”

21. “Technology should do the hard work, so you can get on and live your life. We’re only at one percent of what’s possible, and we’re moving slow relative to the opportunity we have.”

22. “You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”

23. “Almost everyone who has had an idea that’s somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they’re insane.”

24. “You know what it’s like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don’t have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.”

25. “We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.”

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26. “Lots of companies don’t succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.”

27. “The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we’re a long, long ways from that.”

28. “If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don’t have a really narrowly focused education.”

29. “Our mission is to organize the world’s information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it’s going to work.”

30. “Find the leverage in the world so you can be truly lazy.”

31. “My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they’re having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we’re doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.”

32. “If we are not trusted, we have no business.”

33. “You need to get one thing done well, or else you don’t have permission to do anything else.”

34. “Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn’t know where you are. It doesn’t know what you’re doing. It doesn’t know what you know.”

35. “Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life.”

36. “I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it.”

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39. “You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.”

40. “You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what’s really happening is more important than trying to control people.”

41. “Every story I read about Google is about us vs some other company, or something else, and I really don’t find that interesting. We should be building great things that don’t exist. Being negative is not how we make progress.”

42. “Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don’t believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you’re likely to have issues.”

43. “How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?”

44. “I feel like my job as CEO is always to be pushing people ahead.”

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47. “Most of us carry at least one device, all the time, every day. In fact many of us would feel naked without our smartphone. It’s hardly surprising mobile search queries – and mobile commerce – are growing dramatically across the world.”

48. “You may think using Google’s great, but I still think it’s terrible.”

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