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" 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
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" Fast learners win. "
Eric Schmidt
Learners
Win
Fast
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" In general in technology, if you own a platform that's valuable, you can monetize it. "
Eric Schmidt
Technology
Own
General
" 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
" 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
" We used to think that the enterprise was the hardest customer to satisfy, but we were wrong. It turns out, consumers are harder than the enterprise because the consumer will not give you a second chance. "
Eric Schmidt
Second Chance
You
Wrong
" I use Google+, and I find the quality of the comments are very sophisticated because there is more trust inside of Google+ than there is inside of Twitter and Facebook, for example. "
Eric Schmidt
Google
Inside
Quality
" 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
" In our case, we focus on quality, and we have a very simple model. If we show fewer ads that are more targeted, those ads are worth more. So we're in this strange situation where we show a smaller number of ads and we make more money because we show better ads. And that's the secret of Google. "
Eric Schmidt
Focus
Better
Quality
" In whatever number of years I have on Earth, I think that promoting the values of free expression, the openness of the Internet, that's the best use of my time. "
Eric Schmidt
Values
Time
Think
" I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces. "
Eric Schmidt
Will
View
Two
" 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
" 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
" Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive. "
Eric Schmidt
Protection
Technology
Washington
" I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations. "
Eric Schmidt
More
Impact
Think
" 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
" We weren't here to hope and hang on. We wanted to win. "
Eric Schmidt
Hang
Were
Win
" People are building communities of people who use video. They're sharing them. YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly. "
Eric Schmidt
Sharing
Building
Traffic
" 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
" 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
" 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
Our
Better
Get
" 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
" 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
" 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 don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time. "
Eric Schmidt
Time
Everyone
Believe
" There's a set of people who are intrinsic oppositionists to everything Google does. "
Eric Schmidt
Does
Everything
Google