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