Larry Page Quotes

Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.

I'm allergic to doing the obvious thing.

I've got a lot of crazy plans.

There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.

Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.

We cannot meet big challenges with small ideas.

The most important voices in American politics often belong to the outsiders, whose who … might stand as a landscape painter from a distance to cast fresh lights

You can't become a history-maker stuck in tiny thinking. You just can't.

If you do something that's different and quirky and original, it takes time for people to figure it out.

I'm always up for collaborating with people who are slightly leftfield.

The most successful people in the world are the ones who thought of that idea that was 'too crazy to work.'

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

My mother wasn't a stickler for the more practical approaches to life.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.

I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.

I love paradox. I like to go where people don't expect me to go.

People make basic assumptions based on what they have now. But you have to ask yourself, 'Is this really what people are going to be doing in five years?' Very few people ask themselves what they would actually want instead if they could wave a magic wand.

We've all forgotten how to be original.

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

Caltech is a very adventurous place. Part of the culture is that we tolerate people doing things that seem impossible, and also synthesizing and borrowing ideas across very kooky and unusual boundaries.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.