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
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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.
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If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.
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We used to think that the enterprise was the hardest customer to satisfy, but we were wrong. It turns out, consumers are harder than the enterprise because the consumer will not give you a second chance.
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We concluded that although we weren't wild about the restrictions, it was even worse to not try to serve those users at all.
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I don't know where (Chinese) revenue growth will be, but it will obviously be large.
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But it's not giving them any significant cash flow.
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Imagine having a wide selection of images from the Apollo space mission at your fingertips whenever you want it.
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Obviously the more products you have and the more earnings you have, the less risk you have.
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Let's face it programmers want to program, they don't want to do their laundry. We make it easy for them to do both.
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In whatever number of years I have on Earth, I think that promoting the values of free expression, the openness of the Internet, that's the best use of my time.
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The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.
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Google's architectural model around broadband and services and so forth plays very well to the powerful devices and services Apple is doing. We're a perfect back end to the problems that they're trying to solve.
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Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will spread, and it will change those societies in very dramatic ways.
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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.