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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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In many countries adult pornography legislation is an attempt to legislate something else.
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I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.
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In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.
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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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The policy of America to deny visas to technically trained people in the U.S. and shipped to other countries, where they create companies that compete with America, has to be the stupidest policy of all the U.S. government policies.
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Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences.
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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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Remember, when you go to YouTube, you do a search. When you go to Google, you do a search. As we get the search integrated between YouTube and Google, which we're working on, it will drive a lot of traffic into both places. So the trick, overall, is generating more searches, more uses of Google.
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Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture.
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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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Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that.
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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.
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Find a way to say “Yes” to things. Say yes to invitations to a new country, say yes to meet new friends, say yes to learning a new language, picking up a new sport. Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job. Yes is how you find your spouse, and even your kids.
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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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We want to make sure the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time.
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The Internet of things will augment your brain.
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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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Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.
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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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Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.
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