Google is really committed to improving everything. So it has been really fun to participate in all of their different moonshots.
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.
The best people in this industry [technology] are the people who are trying to solve big problems.
Entrepreneurship is about tackling big problems - often non-obvious problems - that will have a meaningful impact on the world, and this usually involves solving these problems in counterintuitive ways.
The realization is dawning that government doesn't work. In Silicon Valley, they already get this. And they are bright enough to be asking what we can do to solve problems.
The principles of disruptive innovation are indeed intended to be guidelines to assist managers both in introducing disruptive innovations as well as identifying disruptive developments in their market.
To really disrupt a big market, you have to look at the marketplace from a long-term perspective. You have to move very fast but knowing that disruptive solutions just take time to build.
Ultimately, to me, the computer is just a big pencil. What can we sketch using this pencil that makes a positive difference to society and advances the state of the art, hopefully in an outsized way?
We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.
