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, 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, Time, Technology, War

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

Search, Internet, Nothing, Through, Some

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

Fight, You, Privacy, Lose, Your

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, Broadband

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, Strategy, Create

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

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, Time, Choices, Winner, Choice, You

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

Recognition, Bad, Example, Used, Things

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

Humanity, Internet, Understand, Anarchy

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

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, Peace, Children, 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

America, Government, People, Create

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, YouTube, Going

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

Good, Memory, People, Computers, Living

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

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

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

Funny, Time, World, Win, Game, Possible

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, Space, Moment, People

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, Why, Washington, Going

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

People, Think, Questions, Doing, Want

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, You, Play, Coach, Watch, Well

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

Computers, View, Will, Different, Two

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

Reading, Best, Book, Believe, Learn, 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, Selling, Results

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

People, Think, Find, Idiots, Surprised

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