I spend most of my time assuming the world is not ready for the technology revolution that will be happening to them soon.
Eric SchmidtThe best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information.
Eric SchmidtOne 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.
Eric SchmidtEvery two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.
Eric SchmidtGoogle is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.
Eric SchmidtThe 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 SchmidtThe 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 SchmidtThere's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature of our society.
Eric SchmidtI 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 SchmidtFind a way to say “Yes” to things. Say yes to invitations to a new country, say yes to meet new friends, say yes to learning a new language, picking up a new sport. Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job. Yes is how you find your spouse, and even your kids.
Eric SchmidtPeople 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 SchmidtWhen companies are growing quickly and they are having a lot of impact, careers take care of themselves.... If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on.
Eric SchmidtIt's a mistake to predict the size of markets that are so new. This model has shown no signs of slowing down. So we are going to get as much of it as we possibly can, and when we get close to that we'll figure out other problems.
Eric SchmidtIn a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it.
Eric SchmidtI don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.
Eric SchmidtWhen 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.
Eric SchmidtIt's because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional resources.
Eric SchmidtPeople are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots.
Eric SchmidtIf you think about YouTube, YouTube is a 'searching the world's videos' problem, right? They all have to be there, but how do you find them? What I guess I'm trying to say is that search is still the killer app.
Eric SchmidtSuccess is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.
Eric SchmidtI 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 SchmidtI 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 SchmidtI use Google+, and I find the quality of the comments are very sophisticated because there is more trust inside of Google+ than there is inside of Twitter and Facebook, for example.
Eric SchmidtBitcoin is a remarkable cryptographic achievement and the ability to create something which is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value
Eric SchmidtIt's very difficult for governments to dominate the Internet because it's so difficult to control. People want to be free. People want to hear multiple voices. They want to make their own decisions. And people who see things will report things.
Eric SchmidtSearch companies, which I won't mention by name, tried to do so many things at the same time, they forgot all about search. They either missed the next revolution of search or they created an opening for a Google to enter.
Eric SchmidtThere 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 SchmidtThe 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 SchmidtWe know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about.
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