Playing catch-up with the competition can only ever help you make incremental gains. It will never help you create something new. - Eric Schmidt

The current inclination of the company is to invest heavily ... we test stuff and, when it works, we put a lot more emphasis on it. So, Google+ — all the signs are very positive, so now the whole company is ramping up on top of it.

I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.

Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that.