Eric Schmidt Quotes

The Internet is fast becoming a cesspool where false information thrives.

The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting.

The biggest mistake that I made was not anticipating the rise of the social networking phenomenon.

People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

Around 400 million people in the last year got a smartphone. If you think that’s a big deal, imagine the impact on that person in the developing world.

People are building communities of people who use video. They're sharing them. YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly.

The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information.

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.

If you're going to make a law, make a law that actually works. It's extraordinarily difficult.

Twitter can no more produce analysis than a monkey can type out a work of Shakespeare.

By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded.

It's because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional resources.

We're about to see an acceleration in technological platforms that, for marketers, will be on a scale rivalled only by the arrival of color TV.

Mobile use is growing faster than all of Google's internal predictions.

Google Maps are phenomenal. Yep, ask an Apple user.

Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that.

I 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.

The 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.

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

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.'

If you thought when you got your job at 20 that it would never change you were misinformed. Retrain yourself to be curious.

In 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.

Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.

There clearly are cases where evil people exist, but you don't have to violate the privacy of every single citizen of America to find them.

It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

I spend most of my time assuming the world is not ready for the technology revolution that will be happening to them soon.

The Internet of things will augment your brain.

People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.

Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

the strength of open, unregulated information-sharing platforms is their responsiveness, not their insight or depth

If you can't tell someone how to think, then you have to learn to manage the environment where they think.

Supercomputer pioneer Seymour Cray used to deliberately hire for inexperience because it brought him people who "do not usually know what's supposed to be impossible.