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

When you use Google, do you get more than one answer? Of course you do. Well, that’s a bug. We have more bugs per second in the world. We should be able to give you the right answer just once. We should know what you meant. You should look for information. We should get it exactly right and we should give it to you in your language and we should never be wrong. That’s our challenge.

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.

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