Eric Schmidt Quotes
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.
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.
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.
There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.
It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence at something.
If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
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.
I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.
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.
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.
We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about.
Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences.
We want to make sure the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time.
Bitcoin is a remarkable cryptographic achievement and the ability to create something which is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value
There'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.
The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other.
When 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.
The issues of wireless versus wireline gets very messy. And that's really an FCC issue, not a Google issue.
I had always assumed that the right way to do it was to these engineers, put them in offices by themselves with doors that they could close so they could think deep thoughts. This is a terrible idea.
In a world where everything is remembered and everything is kept forever, you need to live for the future and things you really care about.
At Google, operations are not just an afterthought: they are critical to the company's success, and we want to have just as much effort and creativity in this domain as in new product development.
People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots.
It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.
Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.
When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.
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.
To me, what you want to do is find a way to let this play out between the virtual world and the physical world...Ultimately, I think society will get there. It will be messy, but we'll get there.
