Sergey Brin Quotes

Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin is a Russian-American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur. Together with Larry Page, he co-founded Google. Brin is the President of Google's parent company Alphabet Inc. As of April 1, 2018, Brin is the 13th-richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$47.2 billion.

Brin immigrated to the United States with his family from the Soviet Union at the age of 6. He earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Maryland, College Park, following in his father's and grandfather's footsteps by studying mathematics, as well as computer science. After graduation, he enrolled in Stanford University to acquire a PhD in computer science. There he met Page, with whom he later became friends. They crammed their dormitory room with inexpensive computers and applied Brin's data mining system to build a web search engine. The program became popular at Stanford, and they suspended their PhD studies to start up Google in a rented garage.

The Economist referred to Brin as an "Enlightenment Man", and as someone who believes that "knowledge is always good, and certainly always better than ignorance", a philosophy that is summed up by Google's mission statement, "Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", and its unofficial yet sometimes controversial motto, "Don't be evil".

✵ 21. August 1973
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Famous Sergey Brin Quotes

“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.”

Guest lecture, UC Berkeley http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7582902000166025817 Oct. 5, 2005 – 40 min.

“We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.”

Guest lecture, UC Berkeley http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7582902000166025817 Oct. 5, 2005 – 40 min.

“… 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.”

Hall, Kevin (November 6, 2012). " Google's Sergey Brin calls on U.S. politicians to ditch their parties http://dvice.com/archives/2012/11/googles-sergey.php". Dvice.com (Syfy). Retrieved 2012-11-12.

“Having come from a totalitarian country, the Soviet Union, and having seen the hardships that my family endured–both while there and trying to leave—I certainly am particularly sensitive to the stifling of individual liberties.”

Quartz: "Without Sergey Brin, Google has lost its healthy fear of authoritarianism" https://qz.com/1347623/without-sergey-brin-google-has-lost-its-fear-of-authoritarian-china/ (6 August 2018)

“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.”

Guynn, Jessica (September 17, 2008). " Google's Schmidt, Page and Brin hold court at Zeitgeist http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/09/googles-schmidt.html". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-01-07.

“If what you’re doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it’s probably not transformative enough.”

Mayer, Catherine (August 5, 2013). Meet ‘Schmeat’: Say Hello to the Stem-Cell Hamburger http://science.time.com/2013/08/05/meet-schmeat-say-hello-to-the-stem-cell-hamburger/. Time Magazine. Retrieved 2019-08-30.

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