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Eric Schmidt
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 27
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Washington
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Eric E. Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidt
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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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The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting.
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It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.
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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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Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture.
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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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Bitcoin is a remarkable cryptographic achievement and the ability to create something which is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value
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I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.
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If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
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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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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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Show us 14 photos of yourself and we can identify who you are.
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I had always assumed that the right way to do it was to these engineers, put them in offices by themselves with doors that they could close so they could think deep thoughts. This is a terrible idea.
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People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.
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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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Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.
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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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In many countries adult pornography legislation is an attempt to legislate something else.
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In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.
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