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" The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists. "
Eric Schmidt
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" When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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 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. "
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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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" Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model. "
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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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" We want to make sure the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time. "
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Looking
Sure
Time
" The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting. "
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Internet
Targeting
" The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory. "
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" We know that Google Earth and Google Maps have had a tremendous impact on Google traffic, users, brand, adoption, and advertisers. We also know Google News, for example, which we don't monetize, has had a tremendous impact on searches and on query quality. We know those people search more. Because we've measured it. "
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Search
Know
" 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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Face
Day
" 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
" There's a set of people who are intrinsic oppositionists to everything Google does. "
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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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" 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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" The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other. "
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" Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Results
Search
" 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 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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" I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations. "
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More
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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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