Eric Schmidt Quotes

American - Businessman Born: April 27, 1955

The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day. Eric Schmidt

Science, Day, Apple, People, Think, Face

Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invented an advertising business which has provided great economics that allows us to build the servers, hire the employees, create value. Eric Schmidt

Business, Great, Value, Advertising

If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example. Eric Schmidt

Positive, History, Technology, Time, War

The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists. Eric Schmidt

American, Realize, Average, Laws, Much

You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it. Eric Schmidt

Fight, Privacy, You, Lose, Your

There's nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere. Eric Schmidt

Internet, Search, Nothing, Somewhere

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had. Eric Schmidt

Internet, Humanity, Understand, Anarchy

Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will spread, and it will change those societies in very dramatic ways. Eric Schmidt

Change, Freedom, Power, Ideas, Internet

The more broadband we can get globally, the better. It's better for the world; it's better for our advertisers; it's better for Google. Eric Schmidt

World, Better, Google, More, Get, Our

YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly. Video is something that we think is going to be embedded everywhere. And it makes sense, from Google's perspective, to be the operator of the largest site that contains all that video. Eric Schmidt

Perspective, Think, Grow, Google, Going

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory. Eric Schmidt

Good, Memory, World, Things, Very

The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.' Eric Schmidt

Business, Great, Moment, Space, People

I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving. Eric Schmidt

Sun, Sunrise, Thought, Karma, Look, Bad

There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It's constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime. Eric Schmidt

Leadership, Technology, Science, High

I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic - in every one of these places. Eric Schmidt

Education, Children, Peace, Travel, Care

The policy of America to deny visas to technically trained people in the U.S. and shipped to other countries, where they create companies that compete with America, has to be the stupidest policy of all the U.S. government policies. Eric Schmidt

People, Government, America, Create

Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently - is largely defined by detailed analytical views and policy choices that are not very good. You know, each policy choice has a winner and a loser, right? Somebody's ox is getting gored. Eric Schmidt

Time, Good, Choices, Winner, Loser, Know

Silicon Valley's involvement with Washington dates from one event, which was John Scully - who was the CEO of Apple - had dinner with President Clinton and Vice President Gore in 1993. And we're all going, like, 'What's going on? Why would we have dinner with the president?' Eric Schmidt

Apple, Dinner, Washington, Involvement

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something. Eric Schmidt

Best, Book, Reading, Believe, Sitting

Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example. Eric Schmidt

Recognition, Bad, Example, Things, Used

I think it's pretty clear that the Internet as a whole has not had a strong notion of identity. And identity means, 'Who am I?' Fundamentally, what Facebook has done has built a way to figure out who people are. Eric Schmidt

Identity, People, Think, Strong, Done

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time. Eric Schmidt

Time, Society, Believe, Everyone

Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo. Eric Schmidt

Technology, Search, Results, Google

People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots. Eric Schmidt

People, Think, Find, Idiots, Out, Lot

The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting. Eric Schmidt

Internet, Information, Really, Targeting

The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media. Eric Schmidt

People, Media, Google, Never, Just, Miss

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