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" I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something. "
Eric Schmidt
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" The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists. "
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" Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive. "
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" 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. "
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" In general in technology, if you own a platform that's valuable, you can monetize it. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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" There's nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Fast learners win. "
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" You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it. "
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" I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations. "
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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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" 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.' "
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" The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting. "
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" 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. "
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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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