I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.
Eric SchmidtA 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.'
Eric SchmidtIn a world where everything is remembered and everything is kept forever, you need to live for the future and things you really care about.
Eric SchmidtI worry that the level of interrupt, the sort of overwhelming rapidity of information โ and especially of stressful information โ is in fact affecting cognition. It is in fact affecting deeper thinking. I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.โจ And I worry that weโre losing that.
Eric Schmidt