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" Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing. "
Eric Schmidt
Change
Marketing
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" I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations. "
Eric Schmidt
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Think
" 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
You
Work
Problem
" I think it's pretty clear that the Internet as a whole has not had a strong notion of identity. And identity means, 'Who am I?' Fundamentally, what Facebook has done has built a way to figure out who people are. "
Eric Schmidt
Think
Strong
Done
" I do want to emphasize that we've seen an explosion in the use of Google Maps and Google Earth for education. The earth is a special place. It is our home and it's why we're all here. And the ability to see what's really going on the earth, the good stuff and the bad stuff, at the level that you can, is phenomenal. "
Eric Schmidt
Home
Earth
Education
" 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
Science
Face
Day
" Even though Google may do very well, there will always be an alternative to what Google is doing, and people will always have the free choice... because there's no way for us to prevent them from exercising that choice. That is one of the key aspects of why the Internet has been so successful. No technologies can dominate. "
Eric Schmidt
Internet
People
Choice
" Since I have access to every, every crisis in the world because it's always blaring at me on cable television, that doesn't mean I have to worry about every one of them. This is also known as knowing where the off button is. "
Eric Schmidt
Television
World
Crisis
" We want to make sure the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time. "
Eric Schmidt
Looking
Sure
Time
" Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example. "
Eric Schmidt
Bad
Used
Things
" I think of Google as a set of overlapping things. It's a consumer platform, consumer phenomenon of which search is its fundamental activity, but there are many other things you can do than search... I think of Google as an advertising company who services the broader advertising industry in the ways that you know. "
Eric Schmidt
Advertising
You
Think
" A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd say, 'Boy, that's interesting. Let's add some more engineers.' "
Eric Schmidt
Interesting
Say
Management
" If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. "
Eric Schmidt
Want
You
First
" I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something. "
Eric Schmidt
Sitting
Book
Best
" 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. "
Eric Schmidt
Going
Think
Perspective
" 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. "
Eric Schmidt
Doing
Google
Questions
" I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving. "
Eric Schmidt
Sun
Karma
Thought
" I used to say that you'll have 10 IP address on your body... and it looks like that's going to happen through medical monitoring. "
Eric Schmidt
Say
Body
You
" Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model. "
Eric Schmidt
Believe
Business
Internet
" One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It's simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who's online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy. "
Eric Schmidt
Negative
Loss
End
" If you think about YouTube, YouTube is a 'searching the world's videos' problem, right? They all have to be there, but how do you find them? What I guess I'm trying to say is that search is still the killer app. "
Eric Schmidt
Search
Problem
Say
" 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. "
Eric Schmidt
Nothing
You
Think
" 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
Media
Google
Just
" 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. "
Eric Schmidt
Great
Value
Advertising
" Google's architectural model around broadband and services and so forth plays very well to the powerful devices and services Apple is doing. We're a perfect back end to the problems that they're trying to solve. "
Eric Schmidt
Problems
Apple
End
" Remember, when you go to YouTube, you do a search. When you go to Google, you do a search. As we get the search integrated between YouTube and Google, which we're working on, it will drive a lot of traffic into both places. So the trick, overall, is generating more searches, more uses of Google. "
Eric Schmidt
Drive
Search
Google
" We weren't here to hope and hang on. We wanted to win. "
Eric Schmidt
Hang
Were
Win
" 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. "
Eric Schmidt
Watch
Play
Well
" Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture. "
Eric Schmidt
Very
Culture
Google
" I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic - in every one of these places. "
Eric Schmidt
Peace
Care
Children
" 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. "
Eric Schmidt
You
Know
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