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, People, Face, Problems

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

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, Advertising, Value

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

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

Sunrise, Sun, Look, Thought, Karma, Dawn

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

Internet, Search, Nothing, Through, Some

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

Fight, Privacy, Lose, You, Your

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, Moment, Great, People, Space

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, Grow, Think, Traffic, Going

The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other. Eric Schmidt

Business, Way, Run, Country, Trade, More

People who bet against the Internet, who think that somehow this change is just a generational shift, miss that it is a fundamental reorganizing of the power of the end user. The Internet brings tremendous tools to the end user, and that end user is going to use them. Eric Schmidt

Change, Power, People, End, Tools, Think

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, Used

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

Good, Memory, World, Things, Computing

Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers. Eric Schmidt

Car, Me, Amazing, Computers, Drive, Bug

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. Eric Schmidt

Medical, Body, You, Say, Looks, Used

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

American, Realize, Average, Laws, Much

I do want to emphasize that we've seen an explosion in the use of Google Maps and Google Earth for education. The earth is a special place. It is our home and it's why we're all here. And the ability to see what's really going on the earth, the good stuff and the bad stuff, at the level that you can, is phenomenal. Eric Schmidt

Education, Good, Home, Place, You, Earth

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, Place, You, Know, Want, First

The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best. Eric Schmidt

Best, Play, You, Coach, Watch, Well

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, Make

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

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

People, Grow, Building, Sharing, Traffic

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

Best, Book, Reading, Believe, Down, Way

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

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