Eric Schmidt quotes

Eric Schmidt is an American software engineer and businessman, best known for his role as CEO of Google. Under his leadership, the company grew into a global technology giant and reshaped the digital world. He has also influenced public policy and innovation through work with various organizations and advisory boards. Here are 71 of his quotes:

I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next. (Eric Schmidt)
If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. View quote
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Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences... View quote
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Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that. View quote
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By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded. View quote
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Ultimately, application vendors are driven by volume, and volume is favored by the open approach Google is taking. There are so many manufacturers working so hard to distribute Android phones globally that whether you like [Android 4.0] or not ... you will want to develop for that platform, and perhaps even first. View quote
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Everyone understands climate change is occurring and the people who oppose it are really hurting our children and our grandchildren and making the world a much worse place. And so we should not be aligned with such people - they're just, they're just literally lying. View quote
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I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something. View quote
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The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day. View quote
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The more broadband we can get globally, the better. It's better for the world; it's better for our advertisers; it's better for Google. View quote
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The current inclination of the company is to invest heavily ... we test stuff and, when it works, we put a lot more emphasis on it. So, Google+ - all the signs are very positive, so now the whole company is ramping up on top of it. (Eric Schmidt)
Playing catch-up with the competition can only ever help you make incremental gains. It will never help you create something new. View quote
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When you use Google, do you get more than one answer? Of course you do. Well, that's a bug. We have more bugs per second in the world. We should be able to give you the right answer just once. We should know what you meant. You should look for information. We should get it exactly right and we should give it to you in your language and we should never be wrong. That's our challenge. View quote
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The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had. View quote
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Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers. View quote
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We have always been the leader in security and in encryption. Our systems are far more secure and encrypted than anyone else, including Apple. They're catching up, which is great. View quote
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I fundamentally believe that disinformation becomes so easy to generate, because complexity overwhelms knowledge, that it's in people's interests, if you will, over the next decade, to build disinformation-generating systems. This is true for corporations, for marketing, for governments, and so forth." View quote
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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.' View quote
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In a networked world, trust is the most important currency. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear. (Eric Schmidt)
You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it. View quote
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I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations. View quote
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A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it. View quote
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Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive. View quote
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