Eric Schmidt Quotes

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.
Eric Schmidt

Humanity, Understand, Internet

People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots.
Eric Schmidt

Find, Idiots, Surprised

Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.
Eric Schmidt

Technology, Another, Results

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.
Eric Schmidt

Time, Society, Everything

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.
Eric Schmidt

Good, Memory, Computing

The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting.
Eric Schmidt

Internet, Highly, Targeting

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.
Eric Schmidt

Science, Place, Problems

And 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.
Eric Schmidt

Google, Broadband, Globally

Fast learners win.
Eric Schmidt

Win, Fast, Learners

Google docs and spreadsheets don't work if you're on an airplane. But it's a technical problem that is going to get solved. Eventually you will be able to work on a plane as if you are connected and, then when you get reconnected to the Internet, your computer will just synchronize with the cloud.
Eric Schmidt

Work, Problem, Able

I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving.
Eric Schmidt

Karma, Sunrise, Bad

People are building communities of people who use video. They're sharing them. YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly.
Eric Schmidt

Grow, Building, Sharing

People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.
Eric Schmidt

Good, Computers, Everything

The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media.
Eric Schmidt

Miss, Media, Seem

We want to make sure the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time.
Eric Schmidt

Time, Looking, Sure

We weren't here to hope and hang on. We wanted to win.
Eric Schmidt

Hope, Win, Here

When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.
Eric Schmidt

Thought, Remember, Internet

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.
Eric Schmidt

Computers, Amazing, Car

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: April 27, 1955

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