His motivation was:
- "The family fled the country in 1979 to escape anti-Semitism and settled in Maryland, where Brin's father held a post at the University of Maryland. Brin attended the Miskan Torah Hebrew School and the Pain Branch Montessori School, then Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, Maryland. He began programming at age nine, on a Commodore 64 computer that his father had given him. He began studying mathematics at the University of Maryland at age fifteen and dropped out of high school after his junior year to enroll full time in the university. Brin earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science (Links to an external site.) from the University of Maryland in 1993 and won a National Science Foundation Fellowship. He began studies for a PhD in computer science at Stanford in 1993, where in 1995 he met future collaborator Larry Page." (Links to an external site.) (Boslaugh, Sarah. “Sergey Brin.” Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia, 2019. EBSCOhost.)
- "The family fled the country in 1979 to escape anti-Semitism and settled in Maryland"