Sundar Pichai quotes:

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  • If you step back and take a holistic look, I think any reasonable person would say Android is innovating at a pretty fast pace and getting it to users.

  • There are many powerful men and women in mobile. I'm fortunate to be part of that group. By no means do I think I'm the most powerful person.

  • We do have business relationships; we do licensing relationships, and people want to use Google services on top of Android. But in theory, you can use Android without Google.

  • What strikes me every single time is that the aspirations of Indians are unique and unparalleled. They're very demanding, regardless of background.

  • It's a world of multiple screens, smart displays, with tons of low-cost computing, with big sensors built into devices. At Google, we ask how to bring together something seamless and beautiful and intuitive across all these screens.

  • For people who use Google Wallet, the experience works.

  • If I'm about to forget my kid's birthday, I want the phone to scream at me until I do something about it.

  • Google is all about information. So the notion of using and presenting information in the right point at the right time to users is what, in essence, describes Google.

  • Google search was important - one of the most important applications ever on the Web. People accessed everything through a browser, and for us it was important for making sure we had an option there.

  • We need to bring Android and Chrome to every screen that matters for users, which is why we focused on phone, wearables, car, television, laptops, and even your workplace.

  • Nest is one vertical implementation of a set of smart products for the home. But we will support other people's smart products for the home.

  • You're going to have 100s of millions of users on Chrome, spanning mobile, tablets, and desktops. That is one unfragmented base. That uniformity is probably better than most of the issues across browsers.

  • A lot of credit goes to Google TV for helping that process get started and helping to build something like Chromecast.

  • The impact of giving someone a connected smartphone is no different from giving them a real computer. I look at how my kids learn and how different it is from how I learned because the impact of these things is just so huge. Sometimes I think we don't fully internalize what it is to get the power of knowledge in everyone's hand.

  • One of the great things about an open system like Android is it addresses all ends of the spectrum. Getting great low-cost computing devices at scale to the developing world is especially meaningful to me.

  • My dad and mom did what a lot of parents did at the time. They sacrificed a lot of their life and used a lot of their disposable income to make sure their children were educated.

  • There's an evolution from, today we tell computers to do stuff for us, to where computers can actually do stuff for us. For example, if I go and pick up my kids, it would be good for my car to be aware that my kids have entered the car and change the music to something that's appropriate for them.

  • Should kids check phones at dinner? I don't know. To me, that's a parenting choice.

  • I have a secret project which adds four hours every day to the 24 hours we have. There's a bit of time travel involved.

  • Users are trying to discover apps; we are trying to improve the app discovery process, and developers are trying to reach users. If you step back, it's a problem we solved with search and ads in search.

  • Obviously, you will always see more malware targeting Android because Android is used more than any smartphone platform by a pretty substantial difference.

  • The thing which attracted me to Google and to the Internet in general is that it's a great equalizer. I've always been struck by the fact that Google search worked the same, as long as you had access to a computer with connectivity, if you're a rural kid anywhere or a professor at Stanford or Harvard.

  • If we are building something that users need, and there is a lot of value we are driving, I think how search manifests in iOS will work out just fine.

  • Android is one of the most open systems I've ever seen. What makes Android great is it's literally designed from the ground up to be customised in a very powerful way.

  • Google teams have lots of autonomy, including from people like me.

  • Open platforms historically undergo a lot of scrutiny, but there are a lot of advantages to having an open source platform from a security standpoint.

  • Android was built to be very, very secure.

  • There's been a big evolution since the days of personal computing. People had a concept of one computing device per family or maybe per person. We've clearly evolved to computing devices becoming more personal.

  • The right moral compass is trying hard to think about what customers want.

  • We're excited by the success of WhatsApp on top of Android. Amazon brings services like Kindle on top of Android. It's a competitive world and a lot more complex than people realize. When you run a platform on scale, you have to make sure it's truly open. That way, not only do you do well, so do others.

  • India has long been an exporter of talent to tech companies... But it is India that's now undergoing its own revolution.

  • Good companies do whatever it takes to make sure apps are great and don't hesitate to add features.

  • We don't expect Google as a first party service to provide all the answers. Part of the reason a platform is successful is because there are very very important things from other companies and other developers on top of the platform.

  • There are many powerful men and women in mobile. I'm fortunate to be part of that group. But by no means do I think I'm the most powerful person.

  • Android was built to be very, very secure,

  • Nest is one vertical implementation of a set of smart products for the home. But we will support other peoples smart products for the home.

  • With Android One, we not only want to help people get online, we want to make sure that when they get there, they can tap into the wealth of information and knowledge the web holds for everyone,

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