Being your own person and standing for what you believe is a critical aspect of a good professional life.

With scale, there always becomes this tension of, how do you keep the start-up philosophy?

Everybody knows: people, operations, and the HR component of Google is one critical strategic asset that we have.

People see the speed; people see the innovation, the relentless innovation, and that's what Google is about.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

I can't imagine anybody who showed up at Firestone for the first time who felt like they knew it better than I did. For me to travel to Akron the first time, 'Oh, my gosh, I can't wait, I know every hole on this golf course. I know the big water tower with the Firestone ball on top, I grew up with this. Here it is! It's real!'

The obvious thing to me was, let's take freely floating masses in space and measure the time it takes light to travel between them. The presence of a gravitational wave would change that time. Using the time difference, one could measure the amplitude of the wave.

Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.