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

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

Think, Every Day, I Think

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

Memory, Living, Lives

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

Privacy, Lose, Your

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

Learn, Best Way, Still

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

World War I, Couple, Hundred

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

Will, Going, Very

I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces. Eric Schmidt

Will, Come, Very

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

Understand, Largest, Built

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

Search, Through, Some

I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next. Eric Schmidt

Think, Doing, Next

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

Play, Watch, Get

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

Good, Very, Analytical

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, Karma, Bed

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, Want, Maybe

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

Needs, Temporary, Tech

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

Think, YouTube, Very

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

Technology, Own, General

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, Tell, Needed

The funny thing about advertising is that it's not a zero-sum game... Historically, in the digital ad world, pie has gotten larger and it's possible for everyone to win, and it's perfectly possible that will continue to be true for quite some time. Eric Schmidt

Game, Some, Larger

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

Strong, I Think, Whole

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

Been, About, Awful Lot

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

Thought, I Remember, Began

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

Grow, YouTube, Very

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, Your, Before

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

Been, Country, Other

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

Business, System, More

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