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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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Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently - is largely defined by detailed analytical views and policy choices that are not very good. You know, each policy choice has a winner and a loser, right? Somebody's ox is getting gored.
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There clearly are cases where evil people exist, but you don't have to violate the privacy of every single citizen of America to find them.
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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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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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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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The average American doesnt realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.
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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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There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature of our society.
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I'm able to bring business expertise but, more importantly, operating experience. The people here at Google are young. Every day there are lots of new challenges. I keep things focused. The speech I give everyday is: This is what we do. Is what you are doing consistent with that, and does it change the world?
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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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In many countries adult pornography legislation is an attempt to legislate something else.
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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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The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.
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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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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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Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.
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We're about to see an acceleration in technological platforms that, for marketers, will be on a scale rivalled only by the arrival of color TV.
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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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It's very difficult for governments to dominate the Internet because it's so difficult to control. People want to be free. People want to hear multiple voices. They want to make their own decisions. And people who see things will report things.
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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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