Larry Brilliant famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In 1980 we declared the globe free of smallpox. It was the largest campaign in United Nations history until the Iraq war. A hundred and fifty thousand people from all over the world, doctors of every race, religion, culture and nation, who fought side by side, brothers and sisters, with each other, not against each other, in a common cause to make the world better.
-- Larry Brilliant

#Brother #War #Doctors
Google's a strange place. When I met Eric Schmidt, he said, "If you are kind to everybody, then you will make good decisions because people will give you good information, and if you are truthful to everybody, they will be truthful to you." That's what's different about Google. They screw up and make mistakes, but they genuinely mean the good stuff about "don't be evil."
-- Larry Brilliant

#Mistake #Integrity #Mean
Life didn't just happen to them. They experienced life at a deeper level than I had ever experienced it. I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.
-- Larry Brilliant

#Heart #Wings #People
I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything.
-- Larry Brilliant

#Mistake #Hundred
The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.
-- Larry Brilliant

#Guru #Great Things #Feels
This is not something that happens far away to people that we don't know. Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.
-- Larry Brilliant

#People #Global Warming #Far Away
The defining character of Steve Jobs isn't his genius, it isn't his talent, it isn't his success. It's his love. That's why crowds came to see him. You could feel that. It sounds ridiculous to talk about love when you are making a gadget. But Steve loved his work, he loved the products he produced, and it was palpable. He communicated that love through bits of steel and plastic.
-- Larry Brilliant

#Jobs #Character #Sound
Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.
-- Larry Brilliant

#War #People #Disease
If you don't put the spiritual and religious dimension into our political conversation, you won't be asking the really big and important question. If you don't bring in values and religion, you'll be asking superficial questions. What is life all about? What is our relationship to God? These are the important questions. What is our obligation to one another and community? If we don't ask those questions, the residual questions that we're asking aren't as interesting.
-- Larry Brilliant

#Spiritual #Religious #Interesting
One percent of the equity, 1 percent of the profits, and 1 percent of the people go into Google.org. The most important asset isn't money, it's people. One percent of the people means 60 or 70 of the smartest people in the world trying to solve some of the biggest problems in the world.
-- Larry Brilliant

#Mean #People #Google
If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.
-- Larry Brilliant

#World #Judgment #Superficial

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