Q: What do you think influenced or inspired you to do what you have at such a young age?

Sergey Brin:

I was really interested in computers ever since I got one, when I was in elementary school. Eventually, I went on to join the Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford. And those purely, the interest of what can you do with all of the world's information--now that it's online --that interest spawned Google. And that was together with Larry Page, who is my co-founder and partner.

Q: Sergey, how do you see Google as a company, and what do you hope to accomplish with it?

At Google, our mission is to make the world's information accessible and useful. And that means all of the world's information, which now, in our index, numbers over a billion documents, and it's an incredible resource. I mean, in history, you have never had access to just, you know, pretty much all the world's information in seconds, and we have that now.

And to make it really useful, you have to have a good way of finding whatever it is that you want. That's precisely what we work on at Google. My hope is to provide instant access to any information anybody ever wants in the future.

Q: What do you think influenced or inspired you to do what you have at such a young age?

Sergey Brin:

I was really interested in computers ever since I got one, when I was in elementary school. Eventually, I went on to join the Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford. And those purely, the interest of what can you do with all of the world's information--now that it's online --that interest spawned Google. And that was together with Larry Page, who is my co-founder and partner.

Q: Sergey, how do you see Google as a company, and what do you hope to accomplish with it?

At Google, our mission is to make the world's information accessible and useful. And that means all of the world's information, which now, in our index, numbers over a billion documents, and it's an incredible resource. I mean, in history, you have never had access to just, you know, pretty much all the world's information in seconds, and we have that now.

And to make it really useful, you have to have a good way of finding whatever it is that you want. That's precisely what we work on at Google. My hope is to provide instant access to any information anybody ever wants in the future.