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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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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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The average American doesnt realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.
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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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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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If you have a child, you'll notice they have two states: asleep or online.
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Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences.
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I used to say that you'll have 10 IP address on your body... and it looks like that's going to happen through medical monitoring.
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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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Since I have access to every, every crisis in the world because it's always blaring at me on cable television, that doesn't mean I have to worry about every one of them. This is also known as knowing where the 'off' button is.
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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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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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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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Do not be afraid to fail, but also, do not be afraid to succeed.
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Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.
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