Quotes of: Larry Keyword

Pocketknives are kind of drifting out of our cultural consciousness, which I think is a terrible thing.

Gever Tulley

I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.

Jon Postel

As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that.

Sebastian Thrun

Budd: Larry, there ain't nobody out there! Larry Gomez: [strung-out tone] "There ain't nobody out there... Larry." What's your point? That you're not needed here? Budd: My point is, I'm the bouncer... and there ain't nobody out there to bounce! Larry...

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

Nicholas Negroponte

I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view.

Sebastian Thrun

It's a no-brainer for me that at some point our cars will have the ability to drive themselves.

Sebastian Thrun

As humanity goes online, it's becoming an extremely advanced, large-scale processing unit.

Luis von Ahn

Most rules that you think are written in stone are just societal. You can change the game and really reach for the stars and make the world a better place.

Sebastian Thrun

The problem - when you cast your net that wide - is you inevitably catch something you don't want to catch.

Edward Felten

The evolution of playground equipment has been to this ever safer, less challenging, less interesting assemblies of equipment.

Gever Tulley

Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns.

Gever Tulley

I don't run any of my companies. I always partner with somebody who wants to operate.

Jim McKelvey

This entrepreneurial energy that we have in the Midwest doesn't have to go out to the coasts to get fed and watered.

Jim McKelvey

If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.

Drew Houston

You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time.

Sebastian Thrun

I believe in order to make a friend, you have to be a friend.

Weili Dai

I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.

Wael Ghonim

I think in terms of the work we're doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier.

Shawn Fanning

Start small and start immediately.

How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country's Top Students

Google X is here to do moonshot-type projects. Not just shooting to the moon, but bringing the moon back to Earth.

Sebastian Thrun