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I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
On morals: "The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil."
On motivation: "I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary， it's not just about the business. There has to be a business， and the business has to make sense， but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you."
On haters: "If you never want to be criticized， for goodness' sake don't do anything new."
I have always believed that technology should do the hard work – discovery, organization, communication – so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly.
I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.
We have a mantra: don’t be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.
I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I’ve tried to really stress that.
What is the one sentence summary of how you change the world? Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!
If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered – the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
If you say you want to automate cars and save people’s lives, the skills you need for that aren’t taught in any particular discipline. I know – I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.
Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society.
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.
If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know life is a complex matter.
When you believe in a thing,believe in it all the way,implicitly and unquestionable.