Quote of the day by Google co-founder Larry Page: "When you aim for the stars you may come up short, but still reach the moon" comments on the scale of ambition

Date:
Wed, 27 May 2026 22:00:00 +0000

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The legendary tech entrepreneur outlines a philosophy at the heart of
Google's meteoric rise in the last few decades

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Larry Page and Sergey Brin may have become the technology industry's forgotten men since stepping back from the limelight in the last few years. Their impact on innovation, within
Google in particular, is momentous and has been underpinned by a specific philosophy that shaped so many ventures courtesy of the Moonshot Factory. "When you aim for the stars you may come up short, but still reach the moon."
Larry Page, April 2018 Reaching for new heights Moonshot is often used to describe the efforts to achieve a highly ambitious, but not entirely impossible, challenge and has its origins in the space race in the mid-20th century. Larry Page, writing in the foreword for American investor John Doerr's 2018 book What Matters , outlined the principle that drove so much achievement at Google. Quote of the day This article is part of TechRadar Pro's QOTD project to provide an insight into the minds of the brightest and most recognized figures in the technology industry today and in years gone
by. Read the full series here . Use of a similar phrasing can be first traced to American author Norman Vincent Peale, who wrote "shoot for the moon, even if you miss, youll land among the stars", and, of course, Page has applied
his own twist but the meaning remains the same. Latest Videos From You may like Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says 'AI shift' makes this a great time to invest in new start-ups You cant spread your energy like peanut butter: Tim Cook shares rare insight into Apples ruthless approach to new ideas and it says a lot about what to expect (or not) from the company moving forward
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The comment speaks to committing to one's ambitions with the intention of success, where failure still means achieving something that is conventionally seen as difficult to accomplish in the first instance.

Page, at the time, was Alphabet's serving CEO but was scaling back his public profile before announcing he would step back completely in December 2019. Breakneck innovation Page's comment speaks to committing to one's ambitions with the intention of success, where failure still means reaching a great height conventionally seen as hard to accomplish.

There is no organization that embodies these values more suitably than Google's own X, the Moonshot Factory. Founded in 2010, it's been at the heart of some of the most exciting projects the industry has seen. Are you a pro? Subscribe to our newsletter Sign up to the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get
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Among the most successful projects include the Waymo, self-driving car technology venture which is growing from strength to strength, as well as
more unusual projects like Malta, in which energy in the form of molten salt and chilled liquid is stored in giant tanks.



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