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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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Eric Schmidt
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 27
Art Collector
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Computer Scientist
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University Teacher
Washington
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Eric E. Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidt
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If you have a child, you'll notice they have two states: asleep or online.
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Just remember when you post something, the computers remember forever.
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In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.
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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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One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It's simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who's online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy.
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Within search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher than content without such verification, which will result in most users naturally clicking on the top (verified) results. The true cost of remaining anonymous, then, might be irrelevance.
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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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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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Do not be afraid to fail, but also, do not be afraid to succeed.
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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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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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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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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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Silicon Valley's involvement with Washington dates from one event, which was John Scully - who was the CEO of Apple - had dinner with President Clinton and Vice President Gore in 1993. And we're all going, like, 'What's going on? Why would we have dinner with the president?'
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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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Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that.
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Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.
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Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.
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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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