Editing Larry Page (section)

== Early life ==
Lawrence Edward Page was born on March 26, 1973,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.biography.com/people/larry-page-12103347|title=Larry Page|website=Biography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209125605/https://www.biography.com/people/larry-page-12103347|archive-date=February 9, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> in [[Lansing, Michigan]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html|title=The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine|last1=Brin|first1=Sergey|author-link=Sergey Brin|last2=Page|first2=Lawrence|date=1998|publisher=Stanford University|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211173022/http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html|archive-date=February 11, 2012|access-date=May 15, 2013}}</ref><ref name="JLowe">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/googlespeakssecr0000lowe|url-access=registration|title=Google Speaks: Secrets of the World's Greatest Billionaire Entrepreneurs, Sergey Brin and Larry Page|last=Lowe|first=Janet|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|year=2009|isbn=978-0-470-50122-1|location=Hoboken, N.J.|page=[https://archive.org/details/googlespeakssecr0000lowe/page/22 22]|oclc=427903805}}</ref> His mother is [[Jewish]];<ref name="Coronabook">{{cite book|title=Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, and Google|last=Brezina|first=Corona|publisher=Rosen Publishing Group|year=2013|isbn=978-1448869114|edition=1st|location=New York|pages=18|lccn=2011039480}}</ref> his maternal grandfather later [[Aliyah|immigrated]] to [[Israel]],<ref name="JLowe"/> though Page's household while growing up was secular.<ref name="Coronabook"/><ref>{{cite magazine|title=The Story of Sergey Brin|url=http://www.momentmag.com/Exclusive/2007/2007-02/200702-BrinFeature.html|magazine=Moment magazine|volume=32|issue=1|access-date=May 15, 2013|author=Mark Malseed|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714111625/http://www.momentmag.com/Exclusive/2007/2007-02/200702-BrinFeature.html|archive-date=July 14, 2011|date=February 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> His father, Carl Victor Page Sr., earned a PhD in [[computer science]] from the [[University of Michigan]]. [[BBC]] reporter Will Smale described him as a "pioneer in [[computer science]] and [[artificial intelligence]]".{{r|BBC}} Page's paternal grandparents came from a [[Protestant]] background.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} Page's father was a [[computer science]] professor at [[Michigan State University]] and his mother Gloria was an instructor in [[computer programming]] at [[Lyman Briggs College]] at the same institution.<ref name="achievement.org">{{cite web|title=Larry Page Biography and Interview|website=achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=https://www.achievement.org/achiever/larry-page/#interview|access-date=April 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181025134254/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/larry-page/#interview|archive-date=October 25, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=BBC>{{cite news|title=Profile: The Google founders|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3666241.stm|access-date=May 15, 2013|work=BBC News|date=April 30, 2004|author=Will Smale|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040501015225/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3666241.stm|archive-date=May 1, 2004|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Alumni newsletter|url=http://www.lymanbriggs.msu.edu/alumni_donors/briggantine/Archived_Briggantines/LBC_ANews_No5_08_1979.pdf|access-date=May 16, 2014|page=2|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130503185937/http://lymanbriggs.msu.edu/alumni_donors/briggantine/Archived_Briggantines/LBC_ANews_No5_08_1979.pdf|archive-date=May 3, 2013}}</ref> Larry's parents divorced when he was eight years old, but he maintained a good relationship both with his mother Gloria and his father's long-term partner and MSU professor Joyce Wildenthal.{{r|googleStory|at=ch. 2}}

When Larry Page was six years old, in 1979, his father brought home an [[Exidy Sorcerer]] computer, which Larry soon mastered and began using for schoolwork.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Isaacson |first=Walter |title=The innovators: how a group of hackers, geniuses and geeks created the digital revolution |date=2015 |publisher=Simon & Schuster Paperbacks |isbn=978-1-4767-0869-0 |edition=1. Simon & Schuster first hardcover |location=New York |publication-date=2014 |pages=448}}</ref>

During an interview, Page recalled his childhood home "was usually a mess, with computers, science, and technology magazines and ''[[Popular Science]]'' magazines all over the place", an environment in which he immersed himself.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-the-untold-story-2014-4|title=The Untold Story Of Larry Page's Incredible Comeback|first=Nicholas|last=Carlson|website=Business Insider|access-date=November 19, 2019|archive-date=December 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191206015457/https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-the-untold-story-2014-4|url-status=live}}</ref> Page was an avid reader during his youth, writing in his 2013 Google founders letter: "I remember spending a huge amount of time pouring [sic] over books and magazines".<ref>{{cite web|author1=Larry Page|title=2013 Founders' Letter|url=https://investor.google.com/corporate/2013/founders-letter.html|website=Google Investor Relations|access-date=February 2, 2015|year=2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150202215024/https://investor.google.com/corporate/2013/founders-letter.html|archive-date=February 2, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> According to writer Nicholas Carlson, the combined influence of Page's home atmosphere and his attentive parents "fostered creativity and invention". Page also played instruments and studied [[music composition]] while growing up. His parents sent him to music summer camp—[[Interlochen Arts Camp]] in [[Interlochen, Michigan]], and Page has mentioned that his musical education inspired his impatience and obsession with speed in computing. "In some sense, I feel like music training led to the high-speed legacy of Google for me". In an interview Page said that "In music, you're very cognizant of time. Time is like the primary thing" and that "If you think about it from a music point of view, if you're a percussionist, you hit something, it's got to happen in [[milliseconds]], fractions of a second".<ref name="Car" />

Page was first attracted to computers when he was six years old, as he was able to "play with the stuff lying around"—first-generation personal computers—that had been left by his mother and father.<ref name="achievement.org"/> He became the "first kid in his elementary school to turn in an assignment from a [[word processor]]".<ref name=Scott/> His older brother Carl Victor Page Jr.{{r|googleStory|at=ch. 2}} also taught him to take things apart and before long he was taking "everything in his house apart to see how it worked". He said that "from a very early age, I also realized I wanted to invent things. So I became interested in technology and business. Probably from when I was 12, I knew I was going to start a company eventually."<ref name= Scott>{{cite book|last=Scott|first={{nobr|Virginia A.}}|date=October 30, 2008|orig-year=First published in 2008|title=Google / Virginia Scott|series=Corporations That Changed the World|location=Westport, Connecticut; London|publisher=Greenwood Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/google0000scot/page/2 2]|isbn=978-0313351273|issn=1939-2486|lccn=2008030541|oclc=234146408|url=https://archive.org/details/google0000scot/page/2}}</ref>