Ben Silbermann Quotes

I thought Google was the coolest place. People there were so smart and they were all doing these really interesting things. I just felt really lucky to be a part of it even in a small way.

Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.

Google is really committed to improving everything. So it has been really fun to participate in all of their different moonshots.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they're proud of.

We must not be afraid to push boundaries; instead, we should leverage our science and our technology, together with our creativity and our curiosity, to solve the world's problems.

It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.

I think Google is a great company, and they're doing really cool things. But they're not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology.

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it.

Intel has been my second family. It is an amazing company that has changed the way people live their lives, and I am proud to have contributed to that in a meaningful way.

It's not all silliness, as interactive SXSW is filled with aggressive learning, discussing, and a whole lot of futurizing.

The reason I like my job is that I have this desire to create. I have this desire to create things and build things, and Google has enabled me to build and create things and to build products that are used by people all over the globe.

I have this desire to create things and build things, and Google has enabled me to build and create things and to build products that are used by people all over the globe.

In a world being transformed by technology, good science is vital to good diplomacy.

It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone, or any other Important thing--and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others.

I like what I do, and a lot of these projects have really interesting material and interesting people to work with. I feel lucky.

I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it's going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together, that allows for better communication, that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we're currently doing in the real world.

My mantra is, I want to work with people that I like to hang out with, who are smart, where I can add value, that I think is an interesting space.

We have so many thousands of sites to find across the globe and new techniques to test. The field keeps evolving with the technology, which makes things exciting.

The best part of working with Facebook has been the cross-fertilization of ideas, people, and technology.

Every job I've taken, I like to bring in some new faces.

Swarms are one very simple way of keeping ourselves ahead of the machines.

Part of the thing that's magic about TechStars is it's about a community that wants to make itself better.

Our superpower is our fierce commitment to creating a positive place to work and play. Our employees have the tools and the mandate to chase big game changing ideas.

The industries closest to Google - media, advertising, and entertainment - are affected first. But the avalanche that is Google and the internet will overtake all industries and institutions - carmakers, bankers, universities, government - as we undergo a fundamental restructuring of the economy and society. Every industry and institution would be wise to understand the need for handing over control, for transparency, for collaboration and speed.