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Eric Schmidt
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 27
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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.
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The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media.
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People are building communities of people who use video. They're sharing them. YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly.
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Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture.
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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.
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I worry that the level of interrupt, the sort of overwhelming rapidity of information — and especially of stressful information — 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. And I worry that we’re losing that.
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People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.
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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.
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By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded.
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Since I have access to every, every crisis in the world because it's always blaring at me on cable television, that doesn't mean I have to worry about every one of them. This is also known as knowing where the 'off' button is.
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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.
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It's very difficult for governments to dominate the Internet because it's so difficult to control. People want to be free. People want to hear multiple voices. They want to make their own decisions. And people who see things will report things.
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In many countries adult pornography legislation is an attempt to legislate something else.
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It's because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional resources.
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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.
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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.
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The issues of wireless versus wireline gets very messy. And that's really an FCC issue, not a Google issue.
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Do not be afraid to fail, but also, do not be afraid to succeed.
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Show us 14 photos of yourself and we can identify who you are.
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Search companies, which I won't mention by name, tried to do so many things at the same time, they forgot all about search. They either missed the next revolution of search or they created an opening for a Google to enter.
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