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If you look at my desk... it's profoundly disorganised - which is why I can work on search.

- Lars Rasmussen
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When I did Google Wave, everyone had to be in Sydney, and a lot people actually traveled there to be part of it. There was a lot of isolation. There were a lot of things we kept secret from the company while working on Wave - just like you would at a startup.

We are all going to be using search many, many times a day, every day of our lives, forever.

Why do we have to live with divides between different types of communication?

We believe we can put out the best products if our engineering workforce has the same characteristics as our user.

Both search and social have these distribution angles to them. Before social, if you wanted any sort of traffic on the web, it had to come from search.

There's almost a total correlation between the amount of risk you're willing to take and then the amount of stuff you then potentially can get done.

I get lost in my own house - and it's not even a big house.

In mapping, where I have no sense of direction, my needs are likely to coincide with the needs of lots of people.

So, it was a tough decision to leave Facebook, but it was definitely the right decision. I haven't regretted it at all.

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If you look at my desk... it's profoundly disorganised - which is why I can work on search.

If you look at my desk... it's profoundly disorganised - which is why I can work on search.

If you look at my desk... it's profoundly disorganised - which is why I can work on search.

If you look at my desk... it's profoundly disorganised - which is why I can work on search.

If you look at my desk... it's profoundly disorganised - which is why I can work on search.

If you look at my desk... it's profoundly disorganised - which is why I can work on search.

If you look at my desk... it's profoundly disorganised - which is why I can work on search.

If you look at my desk... it's profoundly disorganised - which is why I can work on search.

If you look at my desk... it's profoundly disorganised - which is why I can work on search.

If you look at my desk... it's profoundly disorganised - which is why I can work on search.

If you look at my desk... it's profoundly disorganised - which is why I can work on search.

If you look at my desk... it's profoundly disorganised - which is why I can work on search.

If you look at my desk... it's profoundly disorganised - which is why I can work on search.

If you look at my desk... it's profoundly disorganised - which is why I can work on search.

If you look at my desk... it's profoundly disorganised - which is why I can work on search.