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" Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example. "
Eric Schmidt
Bad
Used
Things
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" Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently - is largely defined by detailed analytical views and policy choices that are not very good. You know, each policy choice has a winner and a loser, right? Somebody's ox is getting gored. "
Eric Schmidt
Choices
Winner
Time
" There's nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere. "
Eric Schmidt
Somewhere
Internet
Nothing
" You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it. "
Eric Schmidt
Fight
Your
Privacy
" 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
" 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
Better
World
Our
" It's very difficult for governments to dominate the Internet because it's so difficult to control. People want to be free. People want to hear multiple voices. They want to make their own decisions. And people who see things will report things. "
Eric Schmidt
Decisions
Internet
People
" 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
Technology
Results
Search
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" When you use Google, do you get more than one answer? Of course you do. Well, that's a bug. We have more bugs per second in the world. We should be able to give you the right answer just once. We should know what you meant. "
Eric Schmidt
More
World
You
" The core problem is that the world is full of people who would like to take 99 per cent of the information that's on the Internet, and eliminate 1 per cent. Everyone has their own thing they don't like. "
Eric Schmidt
People
Information
World
" Silicon Valley's involvement with Washington dates from one event, which was John Scully - who was the CEO of Apple - had dinner with President Clinton and Vice President Gore in 1993. And we're all going, like, 'What's going on? Why would we have dinner with the president?' "
Eric Schmidt
Apple
Washington
Involvement
" 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
" 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
Good People
People
Computers
" 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
" If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example. "
Eric Schmidt
History
War
Time
" Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture. "
Eric Schmidt
Very
Culture
Google
" Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive. "
Eric Schmidt
Protection
Technology
Washington
" Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will spread, and it will change those societies in very dramatic ways. "
Eric Schmidt
Change
Freedom
Ideas
" There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It's constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime. "
Eric Schmidt
Science
Technology
Leadership
" I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time. "
Eric Schmidt
Time
Everyone
Believe
" 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
" 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
" Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing. "
Eric Schmidt
Change
Marketing
Expectations
" 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
" 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
" 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
Me
Drive
Computers