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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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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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Do not be afraid to fail, but also, do not be afraid to succeed.
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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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Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture.
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It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.
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I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic - in every one of these places.
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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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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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Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.
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In many countries adult pornography legislation is an attempt to legislate something else.
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We don't have a traditional strategy process, planning process like you'd find in traditional technical companies. It allows Google to innovate very, very quickly, which I think is a real strength of the company.
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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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The trend has been mobile was winning. It's now won.
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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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The average American doesnt realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.
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Just remember when you post something, the computers remember forever.
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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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The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting.
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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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If you thought when you got your job at 20 that it would never change you were misinformed. Retrain yourself to be curious.
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