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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We had a choice to enter the country and follow the law. Or we had a choice not to enter the country.
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We are effectively connecting with users and customers in relevant ways,
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Both teams are very similar as far as the expectations placed upon them.
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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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To the average fan, we probably look like the underdog. They're undefeated. And most people feel that, from top to bottom, the south half of our section in tougher than the north half.
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We will need to be more consistent tonight and play better if we are going to win.
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When you are serious about selling a company you approach likely buyers in a non-public manner. The history of these kinds of announcements is that they rarely lead to a definite transaction.
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YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly. Video is something that we think is going to be embedded everywhere. And it makes sense, from Google's perspective, to be the operator of the largest site that contains all that video.
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Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invented an advertising business which has provided great economics that allows us to build the servers, hire the employees, create value.
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There's nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere.
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If you think about the history of the PC industry, the PC industry has essentially been nothing but acquisitions by one company or another. Dell is the outlier. Dell built its own culture. They automated themselves to be the most efficient manufacturer.
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Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example.
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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.