Eric Schmidt Quotes

• A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don’t do it.

  Eric Schmidt

  Topics in Wisdom

• 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.

  Eric Schmidt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Assume, Humans

• 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.

  Eric Schmidt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Google, Technical

• People are building communities of people who use video. They’re sharing them. YouTube’s traffic continues to grow very quickly.

  Eric Schmidt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Traffic, Communities

• Fast learners win.

  Eric Schmidt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fast

• 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.

  Eric Schmidt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Globally, Broadband

• 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.

  Eric Schmidt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Facebook, Rise

• Your car should drive itself. It’s amazing to me that we let humans drive cars… It’s a bug that cars were invented before computers.

  Eric Schmidt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humans, Invented

• The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

  Eric Schmidt

  Topics in Memory

  Tags in Good

• I don’t believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

  Eric Schmidt

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Recorded, Available

• When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.

  Eric Schmidt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Internet, Publicity, World

• We weren’t here to hope and hang on. We wanted to win.

  Eric Schmidt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hope

• We want to make sure the thing you’re looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time.

  Eric Schmidt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Google, Sure, Thing

• The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there’s an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media.

  Eric Schmidt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Internet, Search Engine

• 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.

  Eric Schmidt

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Understand, Experiment

• The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting.

  Eric Schmidt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Internet, Information

• People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they’re idiots.

  Eric Schmidt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Surprised, Idiots

• Half of Google’s revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.

  Eric Schmidt

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Search, Companies

Eric Schmidt (18)

Birth:	27th April, 1955
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Software Engineer

About

Eric Emerson Schmidt was born in Falls Church, Virginia, USA. He is an American software engineer, businessman, as well as the executive chairman of Alphabet Inc. As an intern at Bell Labs, Schmidt did a complete re-write of Lex, a program to generate lexical analysers for the Unix computer operating system. From 1997 to 2001, he was chief executive officer of Novell. From 2001 to 2011, he served as the CEO of Google. He earned a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1976. He earned an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from University of California at Berkeley in 1979. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of California at Berkeley in 1982. In the 2000s, he taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business as a lecturer in strategic management.

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