Eric Schmidt Quotes

American - Businessman Born: April 27, 1955

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, First

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, People, Face, Think, Apple

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

Internet, Search, Nothing, Engine, Found

Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive. Eric Schmidt

Technology, Protection, Washington

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, Karma, Thought, Look, Dawn

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, Technology, History, Time, War

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

Recognition, Bad, Things, Example, Very

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

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

When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world. Eric Schmidt

People, Internet, World, Thought, Way

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

Internet, Information, Really, About

I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations. Eric Schmidt

Politics, Think, Impact, More, Than

Remember, when you go to YouTube, you do a search. When you go to Google, you do a search. As we get the search integrated between YouTube and Google, which we're working on, it will drive a lot of traffic into both places. So the trick, overall, is generating more searches, more uses of Google. Eric Schmidt

Drive, Search, You, Remember, YouTube

Google docs and spreadsheets don't work if you're on an airplane. But it's a technical problem that is going to get solved. Eventually you will be able to work on a plane as if you are connected and, then when you get reconnected to the Internet, your computer will just synchronize with the cloud. Eric Schmidt

Work, Internet, Airplane, Problem, Cloud

We want to make sure the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time. Eric Schmidt

Time, Looking, You, Want, Google, Sure

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

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. Eric Schmidt

Doing, You, Place, Know, Want, First

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, Awful

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, Miss, Seem

We weren't here to hope and hang on. We wanted to win. Eric Schmidt

Hope, Win, Here, Hang, Wanted, Were

And 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

Better, World, More, Google, Get, Our

People are building communities of people who use video. They're sharing them. YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly. Eric Schmidt

People, Building, Grow, Traffic, YouTube

Fast learners win. Eric Schmidt

Win, Fast, Learners

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

People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers. Eric Schmidt

Good, People, Computers, Good People

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