Eric Schmidt quotes - page 3

Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model. (Eric Schmidt)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Even though Google may do very well, there will always be an alternative to what Google is doing, and people will always have the free choice... because there's no way for us to prevent them from exercising that choice. That is one of the key aspects of why the Internet has been so successful. No technologies can dominate. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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.' View quote
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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?' View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists. View quote
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The issues of wireless versus wireline gets very messy. And that's really an FCC issue, not a Google issue. View quote
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In general in technology, if you own a platform that's valuable, you can monetize it. View quote
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People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots. View quote
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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. View quote
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We want to make sure the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time. View quote
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I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time. View quote
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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. View quote
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The core problem is that the world is full of people who would like to take 99 per cent of the information that's on the Internet, and eliminate 1 per cent. Everyone has their own thing they don't like. (Eric Schmidt)