????在產品演示時，大家都知道佩奇會默默計時，如果他認為一款產品速度太慢，就會抱怨。谷歌在開發Chrome網絡瀏覽器時對其進行了速度優化。佩奇對于速度的關注所帶來的影響已遠遠超出了谷歌自身。2010年，谷歌在對搜索結果排序時開始考慮網站的加載速度。這迫使全世界的網站管理員對網頁加載速度進行優化。

????因為他的緣故，整個互聯網可能都變快了，但這并不意味著佩奇就會滿足。

????“看到軟件開發人員懶散的程度讓人感到驚訝不已，他們覺得，軟件運轉需要一些時間沒什么大不了的。”佩奇說，“但這的確是不能容忍的。”他笑了笑說，“人們能非常快地處理信息。如果你的電話性能不佳或有其他問題，就是一個大問題。”

????如今，佩奇可能還沒有放松要求產品實時工作的苛求。但自從2011年他接任公司首席執行官后，他開始堅持讓谷歌注重另一項核心要素：美學。這也是音樂教育給予他的啟迪。

????佩奇相信美學設計與速度并不矛盾，他敦促工程師和產品經理為谷歌所有的網絡產品推出全新統一的、更為優雅的設計。谷歌內部將這一項目稱為肯尼迪項目（Project Kennedy），一開始以谷歌的搜索頁面為主，后來幾乎涉及到了谷歌其他所有服務。自此以后，視覺設計已成為開發流程一個不可或缺的部分，特別是移動應用。

????“我認為，藝術是我們所做工作的一項重要組件。”他說，“作為一家科技公司，我一直在努力強調這一點。”佩奇說，他學會欣賞“藝術組件”一定程度上是因為音樂的緣故。

????如今，佩奇對音樂的興趣轉向了新的領域。至于會為谷歌帶來什么樣的影響，仍有待觀察（如有影響）。“近幾年我在努力學習一點打擊樂，這很具挑戰性”，他說道。（財富中文網）

????翻譯：早稻米

????審：李翔

????During product demos, Page is known to count in his head and complain if he thinks a product is slow. When Google developed the Chrome web browser, it was optimized for speed. And Page’s focus on speed had an impact well beyond Google itself. In 2010, Google began taking into account the loading speed of a website when it ranked in search results. That pushed web masters around the world to work on optimizing their pages for speed.

????The whole Internet may be faster because of him, but that doesn’t mean Page is satisfied.

????“It’s amazing to the extent to what software developers kind of get lazy, and they’re okay with things taking a while,” Page said. “But it’s really not okay.” After a short chuckle, Page added: ”People can process information really quickly. And if your phone is sluggish or whatever, it’s a huge problem.”

????Page may have not relaxed his exacting demands for products to work in real time. But since he took over as CEO in 2011, he began insisting that Google focus on another critical element that was also inspired by his music education: beauty.

????Page determined that beautiful design and speed no longer needed to be at odds, and he pushed his engineers and product managers to focus a new, unified, and more elegant design, for all of Google’s web products. The initial effort, internally called Project Kennedy, first focused on Google’s search page, and later touched virtually every other Google service. Since then, visual design has become an integral part of the development process, especially on mobile.

????“I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do,” he said. “As a technology company I’ve tried to really stress that.” Page says he learned to appreciate that “artistic component,” in part through music.

????Now, Page’s interest in music has taken a new turn. How it will impact Google, if at all, remains to be seen. “The last couple of years I’ve been trying to learn percussion a bit, which has been challenging,” he said.