30 Quotes From Sundar Pichai – The CEO Of Google

 

The core of what Google is about is bringing information to people.
– Sundar Pichai

My dad and mom did what a lot of parents did at the time. They sacrificed a lot of their life and used a lot of their disposable income to make sure their children were educated.
– Sundar Pichai

Android was built to be very, very secure.
– Sundar Pichai

Google teams have lots of autonomy, including from people like me.
– Sundar Pichai

India has long been an exporter of talent to tech companies… But it is India that’s now undergoing its own revolution.
– Sundar Pichai

One of the great things about an open system like Android is it addresses all ends of the spectrum. Getting great low-cost computing devices at scale to the developing world is especially meaningful to me.
– Sundar Pichai

The right moral compass is trying hard to think about what customers want.
– Sundar Pichai

We run Android in a very open way and work closely with all partners. We work with Samsung, and I spend a lot of time with them. But we’ve always supported other partners.
– Sundar Pichai

Android was intended to be very customizable. And we welcome innovations.
– Sundar Pichai

When you run a platform on scale, you have to make sure it’s truly open. That way, not only do you do well, so do others.
– Sundar Pichai

Google is all about information. So the notion of using and presenting information in the right point at the right time to users is what, in essence, describes Google.
– Sundar Pichai

If you step back and take a holistic look, I think any reasonable person would say Android is innovating at a pretty fast pace and getting it to users.
– Sundar Pichai

For me, it matters that we drive technology as an equalizing force, as an enabler for everyone around the world. Which is why I do want Google to see, push, and invest more in making sure computing is more accessible, connectivity is more accessible.
– Sundar Pichai

Computing is evolving beyond phones, and people are using it in context across many scenarios, be it in their television, be it in their car, be it something they wear on their wrist or even something much more immersive.
– Sundar Pichai

It’s a world of multiple screens, smart displays, with tons of low-cost computing, with big sensors built into devices. At Google, we ask how to bring together something seamless and beautiful and intuitive across all these screens.
– Sundar Pichai

 

We don’t expect Google as a first party service to provide all the answers. Part of the reason a platform is successful is because there are very very important things from other companies and other developers on top of the platform.
– Sundar Pichai

I would love for my phone to scream if I am about to miss an important thing in my life and never bother me if I’m doing something very important and the information coming in is less important than what I’m doing.
– Sundar Pichai

I think it is going to be hard for individual OEMs to create a platform on top of which people will write content and services and which users will transact.
– Sundar Pichai

A lot of credit goes to Google TV for helping that process get started and helping to build something like Chromecast.
– Sundar Pichai

We ship a new version of Google Play Services every six weeks. Typically, 90 percent of users are on the new version of that.
– Sundar Pichai

There are seven billion people in the world. And I think phones are the first time most people will have access to a modern computing device. With Android, we want to enable that for people.
– Sundar Pichai

I have a secret project which adds four hours every day to the 24 hours we have. There’s a bit of time travel involved.
– Sundar Pichai

Should kids check phones at dinner? I don’t know. To me, that’s a parenting choice.
– Sundar Pichai

We do have business relationships; we do licensing relationships, and people want to use Google services on top of Android. But in theory, you can use Android without Google.
– Sundar Pichai

Good companies do whatever it takes to make sure apps are great and don’t hesitate to add features.
– Sundar Pichai

Things like WhatsApp are a great example of success that others have had on Android, which we see as welcome innovation on the platform.
– Sundar Pichai

Obviously, you will always see more malware targeting Android because Android is used more than any smartphone platform by a pretty substantial difference.
– Sundar Pichai

For people who use Google Wallet, the experience works.
– Sundar Pichai

We need to bring Android and Chrome to every screen that matters for users, which is why we focused on phone, wearables, car, television, laptops, and even your workplace.
– Sundar Pichai

If I’m about to forget my kid’s birthday, I want the phone to scream at me until I do something about it.
– Sundar Pichai

There’s been a big evolution since the days of personal computing. People had a concept of one computing device per family or maybe per person. We’ve clearly evolved to computing devices becoming more personal.
– Sundar Pichai

There are many powerful men and women in mobile. I’m fortunate to be part of that group. But by no means do I think I’m the most powerful person.
– Sundar Pichai

Open platforms historically undergo a lot of scrutiny, but there are a lot of advantages to having an open source platform from a security standpoint.
– Sundar Pichai

Google search was important – one of the most important applications ever on the Web. People accessed everything through a browser, and for us it was important for making sure we had an option there.
– Sundar Pichai

You’re going to have 100s of millions of users on Chrome, spanning mobile, tablets, and desktops. That is one unfragmented base. That uniformity is probably better than most of the issues across browsers.
– Sundar Pichai

If we are building something that users need, and there is a lot of value we are driving, I think how search manifests in iOS will work out just fine.
– Sundar Pichai