Co-Founder & Director, Alphabet
Search every verified Lawrence Page interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Larry Page has described artificial intelligence as "the ultimate version of Google," stating in a 2000 interview that an ideal search engine would "understand everything on the web" and "be able to answer any question basically because almost everything is on the web." He has also discussed his approach to innovation, saying he uses the economic concept of "additionality," which he defined as "doing something that wouldn't happen unless you're actually doing it." Page has said he tries to focus on "what that future really is going to be and how do we create it." Page has commented on the structure of Alphabet, noting that he and Sergey Brin see part of their job as "the Warren Buffett part, managing these disparate things." He has said his job is "to create that scale that we haven't quite seen from other companies." Regarding self-driving cars, Page said he hopes they can cause "a really dramatic change" and noted that "so much of our land, in most cities about 30 to 50 percent, is parking which is a tremendous waste." He has also stated that "invention is not enough," arguing that "companies are doing the same incremental thing that they did 50 years ago or 20 years ago" and that "we need revolutionary change not incremental change."
“When I was 12 or so, my parents actually gave me an autobiography of Tesla, and you know, when I say Tesla, maybe some of you think of the rock band, maybe you think of the electric car company now, but actually refers to Nikola Tesla.”
“Tesla was actually working hard on transmitting power across continents wirelessly and is still not known exactly what he had in mind.”
“Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google, so if we had the ultimate search engine, it would understand everything on the web.”
“It would understand exactly what you wanted and it would give you the right thing, and that's obviously artificial intelligence.”
“Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google, so if we had the ultimate search engine, it would understand everything on the web.”
“It would understand exactly what you wanted and it would give you the right thing, and that's obviously artificial intelligence.”
“Artificial intelligence would be able to answer any question basically because almost everything is on the web.”
“I almost use the economic concept of additionality, which means that you're doing something that wouldn't happen unless you're actually doing it.”
“The more you can do things like that, the bigger impact you have, and that's about doing things people might not think are possible.”
“The more you learn about technology, the more you learn what's possible.”
“I think also companies have pretty bad reputations in general. It's not like most people in the world get up and they're like, 'Oh, I wish I could go work for a company.'”
“I think we got to be more ambitious, we got to do things that matter more to people. We've got to do less things that are kind of Zero Sum games and more things that really cause a lot of benefit.”
“The other thing we're trying to do is say, is that thing really really important? Is it going to affect everyone in the world? Is it going to affect a lot of people every day?”
“Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google, so if we had the ultimate search engine, it would understand everything on the web.”
“It would understand exactly what you wanted and it would give you the right thing, and that's obviously artificial intelligence.”
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