> I'm not sure about Brin and Page, ... Larry Page was incredibly ambitious even while he was a PhD student. He naively intended to work on 3 projects. Luckily

> I'm not sure about Brin and Page, ... Larry Page was incredibly ambitious even while he was a PhD student. He naively intended to work on 3 projects. Luckily he listened to the good advice of his advisor, Terry Winograd, who asked him to narrow his focus down to the web. The quote below is excerpted from his 2009 commencement address [1]. "I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. I know that sounds completely nuts. But, since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. There are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name." [1] http://googlepress.blogspot.com.ng/2009/05/larry-pages-university-of-michigan.html http://googlepress.blogspot.com.ng/2009/05/larry-pages-unive...