" In early 2004, she gave a progress report at a Google Product Strategy meeting. Eric Schmidt asked her how many publishers AdSense had signed up. He figured the number would be in the thousands. But she reported a number well up in the hundreds of thousands. “They almost fell off their chairs,” she said. But not Brin. “That’s pretty good,” he said. Later people would explain to Malone that Brin’s “pretty good” is the equivalent of a Nobel Prize. "

― Steven Levy , In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives