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

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Eric Schmidt
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 27
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Eric E. Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidt
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If you're going to make a law, make a law that actually works. It's extraordinarily difficult.
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In many countries adult pornography legislation is an attempt to legislate something else.
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It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.
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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.
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