"People always make the assumption that we're done with search. That's very far from the case. We're probably only 5 percent of the way there. We want to create the ultimate search engine that can understand anything ... some people could call that artificial intelligence."

"a lot of our systems already use learning techniques"

The ultimate search engine would understand everything in the world. It would understand everything that you asked it and give you back the exact right thing instantly,"

"You could ask 'what should I ask Larry?' and it would tell you."

"For 30 years I have been wondering, what indication of its existence might we expect from a true AI? ... Anomalous accumulation or creation of wealth might be a sign, or an unquenchable thirst for raw information, storage space, and processing cycles"

"In attempting to construct such machines we should not be irreverently usurping His power of creating souls, any more than we are in the procreation of children. Rather we are, in either case, instruments of His will providing mansions for the souls that He creates."