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Eric Schmidt
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 27
Art Collector
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Washington
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Eric E. Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidt
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In many countries adult pornography legislation is an attempt to legislate something else.
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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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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 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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In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.
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The core problem is that the world is full of people who would like to take 99 per cent of the information that's on the Internet, and eliminate 1 per cent. Everyone has their own thing they don't like.
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The average American doesnt realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.
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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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If you're going to make a law, make a law that actually works. It's extraordinarily difficult.
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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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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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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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Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that.
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We run the company by questions, not by answers.
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Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture.
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Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.
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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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Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.
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Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences.
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