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For those who say you're thinking too big... be smart enough not to listen. For those who say the odds are too small ... be dumb enough to give it a shot. And for those who ask, how can you do that?... look them in the eyes and say, I'll figure it out.

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Eric Schmidt
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 27
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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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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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If you're going to make a law, make a law that actually works. It's extraordinarily difficult.
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People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.
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I think it's pretty clear that the internet as a whole has not had a strong notion of identity. And identity means, 'Who am I?' Fundamentally, what Facebook has done has built a way to figure out who people are...
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When you use Google, do you get more than one answer? Of course you do. Well, that's a bug. We have more bugs per second in the world. We should be able to give you the right answer just once. We should know what you meant.
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Brands are the solution, not the problem. Brands are how you sort out the cesspool.
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Even though Google may do very well, there will always be an alternative to what Google is doing, and people will always have the free choice... because there's no way for us to prevent them from exercising that choice. That is one of the key aspects of why the Internet has been so successful. No technologies can dominate.
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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.
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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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It's a mistake to predict the size of markets that are so new. This model has shown no signs of slowing down. So we are going to get as much of it as we possibly can, and when we get close to that we'll figure out other problems.
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Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.
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We want to make sure the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time.
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There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It's constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.
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It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.
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I think of Google as a set of overlapping things. It's a consumer platform, consumer phenomenon of which search is its fundamental activity, but there are many other things you can do than search... I think of Google as an advertising company who services the broader advertising industry in the ways that you know.
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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.
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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.
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Do not be afraid to fail, but also, do not be afraid to succeed.
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I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.
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