Sergey Quotes

#1. To Konstantin Levin the country was good first because it afforded a field for labor, of the usefulness of which there could be no doubt. To Sergey Ivanovitch the country was particularly good, because there it was possible and fitting to do nothing.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.

Xavier Niel

#3. The nice thing about enemies is you know where they stand. This is not always true of friends."

--General Sergey Voloshin

Tom Clancy

#4. When Larry and Sergey founded Google Search, one of the things that struck me is that it was available for everyone to use. We deeply desire our services to work for everyone. And that inherently means we have to work with partners. That is the thesis underlying everything we do.

Sundar Pichai

#5. Imagine what the world might have been like if Larry and Sergey instead became professors or took a job at Microsoft.

Jared Tame

#6. And one particular characteristic that Doerr liked: "They were nerdy white males, dropouts with no social life."6 Again, Larry and Sergey went off to Burger King to celebrate.

Janet Lowe

#7. Sergey Brin has said to me, like, 10 times now, 'Why do you bother doing books? Why don't you just put all this stuff on the Internet?' It's because 10 years from now, my book will still be sitting on someone's coffee table or in a waiting room.

Rick Smolan

#8. EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won't create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them.

Peter Thiel

#9. You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.

Sergey Brin

#10. We just want to have great people working for us.

Sergey Brin

#11. The revolutionary despises public opinion. He despises and hates the existing social morality in all its manifestations. For him, morality is everything which contributes to the triumph of the revolution. Immoral and criminal is everything that stands in its way.

Sergey Nechayev

#12. Think of the 40 years of confrontation. What is it we gained? ... The old style has exposed itself: it is fruitless.

Sergey Akhromeyev

#13. Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don't know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.

Sergey Brin

#14. If both sides reduced their long-range missiles by 50%, SDI would be an unacceptable threat to the remaining Soviet rocket forces.

Sergey Akhromeyev

#15. We want Google to be the third half of your brain.

Sergey Brin

#16. The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.

Sergey Brin

#17. Confidence, just like success, is self made.

Sergey Shcherbatyuk

#18. We wouldn't survive if people didn't trust us.

Sergey Brin

#19. When we cut the price for bananas by 1 ruble, we sell 100 tons a day more ... There are people who live within their budget.

Sergey Galitsky

#20. My vision when we started Google 15 years ago was that eventually you wouldn't have to have a search query at all. You'd just have information come to you as you needed it. And [Google Glass] is now, 15 years later, sort of the first form factor that I think can deliver that vision.

Sergey Brin

#21. When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot.

Sergey Galitsky

#22. I feel there's an existential angst among young people. I didn't have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.

Sergey Brin

#23. But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.

Sergey Brin

#24. When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.

Sergey Brin

#25. I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself - as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal.

Sergey Brin

#26. The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation.

Sergey Brin

#27. The Soviets made me change Romeo and Juliet so that it would have a happy ending, a barbarism, because living people can dance, but the dead cannot dance lying down.

Sergey Prokofiev

#28. Russia doesn't want any arms race. Russia would not engage in the arms race. We have enough technological means to provide not very expensive answer to the efforts to build missile defense.

Sergey Lavrov

#29. Technology is an inherent democratizer. Because of the evolution of hardware and software, you're able to scale up almost anything. It means that in our lifetime everyone may have tools of equal power.

Sergey Brin

#30. When it's too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley.

Sergey Brin

#31. People who don't get rich are lazy or just have other priorities.

Sergey Galitsky

#32. Success in football is impossible without a good school.

Sergey Galitsky

#33. There is the only way to change your life and it is to make it better.

Sergey Vedenyo

#34. It's time to realize that one cannot combat one injustice by invoking and using another injustice

Sergey Lavrov

#35. Russia is very big and very varied. People are different in different regions.

Sergey Galitsky

#36. I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that's what this organization does.

Sergey Brin

#37. Whenever I have met with our elected officials they are invariably thoughtful, well-meaning people. And yet collectively 90% of their effort seems to be focused on how to stick it to the other party.

Sergey Brin

#38. The West appears to have decided for the Ukrainian people what their choice is. The EU does not condemn violent actions in Ukraine which are punishable in the West.

Sergey Lavrov

#39. Wonders happen either way. With you or without you.

Sergey Vedenyo

#40. Currently we don't have plans on conquering the world.

Sergey Brin

#41. We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world.

Sergey Brin

#42. If it is necessary we will find a quick answer and it will not be the way the United States expects it. It will be an answer that devalues the 'Star Wars' program.

Sergey Akhromeyev

#43. Before Google, I don't think people put much effort into the ordering of results. You might get a couple thouand results for a query. We saw that a thousand results weren't necessarily as useful as 10 good ones.

Sergey Brin

#44. Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.

Sergey Brin

#45. Soviet rocket troops possess enough equipment to be able, if need be, to sweep any aggressor from the face of the earth at whatever point of the globe he may be and whatever military power, territory, or economy he may possess.

Sergey Biryuzov

#46. As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

Sergey Brin

#47. You can make money without doing evil.

Sergey Brin

#48. Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.

Sergey Brin

#49. I want to control the company, but I don't know how life goes. We are already a big company, and the larger our capitalization is, the lower goes the threshold for control.

Sergey Galitsky

#50. The Kremlin said Yeltsin was committed to the deal, however. President Yeltsin states clearly and unequivocally that he is an initiator of the unification of the two fraternal states and their peoples, a consistent and firm supporter of it, ... It is a geopolitical necessity and an economic reality.

Sergey Yastrzhembsky

#51. Repeating moves in an ending can be very useful. Apart from the obvious gain of time on the clock one notices that the side with the advantage gains psychological benefit.

Sergey Belavenets

#52. Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.

Sergey Brin

#53. We are currently not planning on conquering the world.

Sergey Brin

#54. The geology of Staten Island is the most complex of the city's boroughs, containing the terminal moraine of the last ice age, a fault line from 470 million years ago, the southern tail of the Palisades formation, and sediments collected over the millennia.

Sergey Kadinsky

#55. When you make money, it's natural to enjoy all the benefits it offers.

Sergey Galitsky

#56. As for "Don't be evil," we have tried to define precisely what it means to be a force for good-always do the right, ethical thing. Ultimately, "Don't be evil" seems the easiest way to summarize it."

Sergey Brin

#57. We haven't rushed to set up targets, either in business or in football. Our goal was to understand how to act and then to move gradually.

Sergey Galitsky

#58. Constraining business is absolutely wrong.

Sergey Galitsky

#59. If you are sad because you know too much, it means that nothing you know is good.

Sergey Vedenyo

#60. We want to be a secure investment, a little bit like a bond.

Sergey Galitsky

#61. As a matter of fact, he was anxious and scared because of the complete senselessness and algorism of the situation, of slight but obvious sense of ominous mysteriousness and mysticism in all that.

Sergey Mavreodi

#62. If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough

Sergey Brin

#63. Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.

Sergey Brin

#64. I don't see anything Wal-Mart can do that other retailers can't.

Sergey Galitsky

#65. We have certain differences over the ways to pursue our goals, but our final aims coincide, in my opinion.

Sergey Lavrov

#66. The longer the war drags on, more and more civilians are getting killed.

Sergey Akhromeyev

#67. When a person earns money, it makes sense if he spends it himself. It's a shame when a person earns money, and some strange funds spend it.

Sergey Galitsky

#68. The problem of destroying enemy rockets in flight has been successfully solved in our country.

Sergey Biryuzov

#69. Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine.

Sergey Brin

#70. It's not enough not to be evil. We also actively try to be good.

Sergey Brin

#71. When people fear to lose much more than strive to find, the great routine begins.

Sergey Vedenyo

#72. We ceased to deal seriously with mobile combat. We relegated to oblivion the fundamentals of combat-in-depth tactics and of combined arms maneuvers which had been widespread before the Finnish campaign.

Sergey Biryuzov

#73. The revolutionary can have no friendship or attachment, except for those who have proved by their actions that they, like him, are dedicated to revolution.

Sergey Nechayev

#74. If Google Books is successful, others will follow.

Sergey Brin

#75. We are not pursuing research to develop ABM space systems. There are studies to improve systems of warning against a missile attack, communications and navigation systems and to develop ground-based ABM defences.

Sergey Akhromeyev

#76. One who is seeking the truth sooner or later finds a woman.

Sergey Vedenyo

#77. I've never been to St. Petersburg in my life.

Sergey Galitsky

#78. Having applied ancient principle of aligning the Mind-Body-Spirit in my own challenges, I applied the same concept to my weight loss patients. The results exceeded my and their wildest." expectations.

Sergey Sorin

#79. Generally, health is just so heavily regulated. It's just a painful business to be in. It's just not necessarily how I want to spend my time.

Sergey Brin

#80. To go beyond limits you must come to the limits first.

Sergey Vedenyo

#81. Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.

Sergey Brin

#82. People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.

Sergey Brin

#83. Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.

Sergey Brin

#84. I wish there were a hundred services with which I could easily look at such a book; it would have saved me a lot of time, and it would have spared Google a tremendous amount of effort.

Sergey Brin

#85. It's our job to do everything possible to keep the international community's focus on MH17. That's our obligation to the victims and their loved ones.

Sergey Lavrov

#86. In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won't kill people.

Sergey Brin

#87. I wake up every morning and have a pile of problems.

Sergey Galitsky

#88. I have never felt spite to my rival, I have never got me into a spite like did other sportsmen". "I think that my attitude to the rival should be with a lot of respect".

Sergey Matyushkov

#89. Too many rules with stifle innovation.

Sergey Brin