To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.
Google stated mission
They go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent.
Winston Churchill
The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be very useful in the real world, that's for sure.
Haruki Murakami