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.

Day Science Face People

Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.

Business Believe Internet Google

In general in technology, if you own a platform that's valuable, you can monetize it.

Technology You Own Valuable

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.

Humanity Internet Understand First

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

Internet Search Nothing Engine

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.

Sun Look Thought Sunrise

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

Bad Recognition Things Example

A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd say, 'Boy, that's interesting. Let's add some more engineers.'

Boy Management Ideas Interesting

We used to think that the enterprise was the hardest customer to satisfy, but we were wrong. It turns out, consumers are harder than the enterprise because the consumer will not give you a second chance.

Think You Chance Second Chance

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.

Positive Technology Time History

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

Internet Information About Really

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.

People Thought World Internet

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.

You Drive Remember Search

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

Technology Washington Protection

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.'

Moment Business Great People

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.

World Better Google Get

Fast learners win.

Win Fast Learners

I used to say that you'll have 10 IP address on your body... and it looks like that's going to happen through medical monitoring.

Medical You Body Looks

People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.

Good People Memory Computers

When you use Google, do you get more than one answer? Of course you do. Well, that's a bug. We have more bugs per second in the world. We should be able to give you the right answer just once. We should know what you meant.

World You Know Answer

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

Realize American Average How

One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It's simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who's online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy.

Look Value Loss Negative

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.

People Identity Strong Internet

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

Politics Think Impact More

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.

Business Great Value Advertising

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.

Technology Search Results Google

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