Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27, 1955) is an American businessman and software engineer. He is known for being the Executive Chairman of Google from 2001 to 2017 and Alphabet Inc. from 2015 to 2017.
In many countries adult pornography legislation is an attempt to legislate something else.
A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.
I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.
To me, what you want to do is find a way to let this play out between the virtual world and the physical world. . . Ultimately, I think society will get there. It will be messy, but we'll get there.
The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information.
People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.
The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.
Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference in your - and likely in others' lives as well. Yes is what keeps us all young. It's a tiny word that can do big things. Say it often.
Mobile is the future and there's no such thing as communication overload
We run the company by questions, not by answers.
Say yes to more things.
The funny thing about advertising is that it's not a zero-sum game. . . Historically, in the digital ad world, pie has gotten larger and it's possible for everyone to win, and it's perfectly possible that will continue to be true for quite some time.
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.
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.
Twitter can no more produce analysis than a monkey can type out a work of Shakespeare.
The trend has been mobile was winning. It's now won.
Ultimately, application vendors are driven by volume, and volume is favored by the open approach Google is taking. There are so many manufacturers working so hard to distribute Android phones globally that whether you like [Android 4. 0] or not. . . you will want to develop for that platform, and perhaps even first.
The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.
I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.
The issues of wireless versus wireline gets very messy. And that's really an FCC issue, not a Google issue.