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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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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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.
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There's a set of people who are intrinsic oppositionists to everything Google does.
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The policy of America to deny visas to technically trained people in the U.S. and shipped to other countries, where they create companies that compete with America, has to be the stupidest policy of all the U.S. government policies.
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People are moving to video because they can. Over the past several years, technology has diminished the barriers to entry.
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People are moving to video because they can,
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Going to these sites is a very tempting thing to do. People say they can earn anywhere from $5 to $500 a month, ... I try to gently remind them that going to these sites is wasting the firm's resources.
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He sits in a room full of people who don't agree, and he gets them to agree.
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You can understand Tunisia revolution as a failure to censor the internet. And Libya had that failure too. It's very difficult for governments that are autocratic and don't have broad popular support to be in power when a lot of people have these devices. That was what Arab Spring was about, that people could express this and lead to revolution.
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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.
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I'm able to bring business expertise but, more importantly, operating experience. The people here at Google are young. Every day there are lots of new challenges. I keep things focused. The speech I give everyday is: "This is what we do. Is what you are doing consistent with that, and does it change the world?"
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In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it.
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I think to some degree one of the strengths of the high tech industry is that people are actually willing to tell you things. When I went to Novell, I didn't know how to be a CEO, so I went in and I called all sorts of CEOs I knew. I called in a favor. I wanted to come by and listen to them tell me what it's like to be a CEO.
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People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.