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There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.

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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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Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently - is largely defined by detailed analytical views and policy choices that are not very good. You know, each policy choice has a winner and a loser, right? Somebody's ox is getting gored.
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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.
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The average American doesnt realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.
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The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.'
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.
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I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.
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Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences.
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The Internet of things will augment your brain.
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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.
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I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.
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The trend has been mobile was winning. It's now won.
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The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.
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We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about.
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I do want to emphasize that we've seen an explosion in the use of Google Maps and Google Earth for education. The earth is a special place. It is our home and it's why we're all here. And the ability to see what's really going on the earth, the good stuff and the bad stuff, at the level that you can, is phenomenal.
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