I probably make my team crazy with the questions I ask, but you really have to understand the deep details to be able set your strategy.

We used to take a used locomotive engine, tear it down, rebuild it, and put it back out there. We treated all the engines the same.

I grew up in Finance.

When you're in finance, you see the company deeply - where it's running well and where there's issues you've got to solve.

My main camera is a Nikon D3. I use a French camera from the 1800s for wet plate photography, I use a Hasselblad sometimes. But to me the camera really doesn't matter that much. I don't have a preference for film or digital.

I am one of the last photographers to convert to digital.

Google has the business resources, global scale and platform reach to accelerate Nest growth across hardware, software and services for the home globally.

Knowledge in the Internet Age - networked knowledge - is becoming more like what knowledge has been in the past few hundreds years for scientists: it's provisional; it's a hypothesis that is waiting to be disproved.