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.
Mobile is the future and there's no such thing as communication overload
Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that.
Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.
The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information.
One person's definition of evil is another person's different definition.
There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about.
Each country makes a different decision on adult pornography, but the good news is that even governments you hate, hate child pornography.
Find a way to say yes to things. Say yes to invitations to a new country, say yes to meet new friends, say yes to learn something new. Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids.
Google docs and spreadsheets don't work if you're on an airplane. But it's a technical problem that is going to get solved. Eventually you will be able to work on a plane as if you are connected and, then when you get reconnected to the Internet, your computer will just synchronize with the cloud.
Say yes to more things.
We didn't see any statistically significant relationship between our buzz and our short-term sales. . . Is that the end of the story? I would say no. This is one study on a set of brands in a particular company within a certain segment of the consumer-packag ed-goods industry. It is by no means a generalized result that applies to all industries.
At Google, operations are not just an afterthought: they are critical to the company's success, and we want to have just as much effort and creativity in this domain as in new product development.
The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best.
Brands are the solution, not the problem. Brands are how you sort out the cesspool.
In general in technology, if you own a platform that's valuable, you can monetize it.
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.
Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.
By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded.