<story><title>Sergey Brin&apos;s Resume as a Student</title><url>http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/resume.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>haky_nash</author><text>Sergey and Larry didn&amp;#x27;t code much though. This one&amp;#x27;s hilarious:&lt;p&gt;In the book, early Google engineering boss Craig Silverstein says &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#x27;t trust Larry and Sergey as coders.&amp;quot;
&amp;quot;I had to deal with their legacy  code from the Stanford days and it had a lot of problems. They&amp;#x27;re  research coders: more interested in writing code that works than code  that&amp;#x27;s maintainable.&amp;quot;
One Google engineer from back then says the most remarkable thing  about the co-founders&amp;#x27; code was that when it broke, users would see   funny error message: &amp;quot;Whoa, horsey!&amp;quot;
It turns out the developers most responsible for building the Google that quickly became the Web&amp;#x27;s most powerful company are two guys you&amp;#x27;ve probably never heard of.
The first is Urs Hözle. According to one early Googler quoted by Edwards, Hözle was &amp;quot;the key&amp;quot; to Google&amp;#x27;s early success. 
Edwards writes, &amp;quot;Enough engineers sang his praises that this book could have been written entirely as a hagiography of Saint Urs, Keeper of the Blessed Code.&amp;quot; 
The second is Jeff Dean. Edwards writes that &amp;quot;Jeff pumped out elegant code like a champagne fountain at a wedding.&amp;quot;
&amp;quot;It seemed to pour from him  effortlessly in endless streams that flowed together to form sparkling  programs that did remarkable things. He once wrote a  two-hundred-thousand-line application to help the Centers for Disease  Control manage specialized statistics for epidemiologists. It&amp;#x27;s still in  use and garners more peer citations than any of the dozens of patented  programs he has produced in a decade at Google. He wrote it as a summer  intern in high school.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Sergey Brin&apos;s Resume as a Student</title><url>http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/resume.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>learnyearn</author><text>Looks like &amp;#x27;view source&amp;#x27; reveals the true motivation, commented out ;-)&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;!--&amp;lt;H4&amp;gt;Objective:&amp;lt;&amp;#x2F;H4&amp;gt;
A large office, good pay, and very little work.
Frequent expense-account trips to exotic lands would be a plus.--&amp;gt;</text></comment>