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" 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
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" 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. "
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" The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.' "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory. "
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" People who bet against the Internet, who think that somehow this change is just a generational shift, miss that it is a fundamental reorganizing of the power of the end user. The Internet brings tremendous tools to the end user, and that end user is going to use them. "
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" People are building communities of people who use video. They're sharing them. YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly. "
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" I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time. "
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" Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing. "
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" You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it. "
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" 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?' "
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" 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. "
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Drive
Computers
" Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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World
Crisis
" 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. "
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Time
" We weren't here to hope and hang on. We wanted to win. "
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Were
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" The funny thing about advertising is that it's not a zero-sum game... Historically, in the digital ad world, pie has gotten larger and it's possible for everyone to win, and it's perfectly possible that will continue to be true for quite some time. "
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" The policy of America to deny visas to technically trained people in the U.S. and shipped to other countries, where they create companies that compete with America, has to be the stupidest policy of all the U.S. government policies. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting. "
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" The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists. "
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" 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. "
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" If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. "
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" 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. "
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