Eric Schmidt
Eric Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidtis an American software engineer, a businessperson, and the Executive Chairman of Alphabet, Inc...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth27 April 1955
CountryUnited States of America
memories world very-good
The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.
people community video
People are building communities of people who use video. They're sharing them. YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly.
monkeys analysis produce
Twitter can no more produce analysis than a monkey can type out a work of Shakespeare.
forever world care
In a world where everything is remembered and everything is kept forever, you need to live for the future and things you really care about.
opportunity information-is-power profound
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.
thinking apples people
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.
phones google use
Mobile use is growing faster than all of Google's internal predictions.
problem internet brands
Brands are the solution, not the problem. Brands are how you sort out the cesspool.
becoming information internet
The Internet is fast becoming a cesspool where false information thrives.
believe privacy available
I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.
apples president events
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?'
google use remember
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.
thinking people missing
People who bet against the Internet, who think that somehow this change is just a generational shift, miss that it is a fundamental reorganizing of the power of the end user. The Internet brings tremendous tools to the end user, and that end user is going to use them.
loss negative looks
One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It's simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who's online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy.