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" We want to make sure the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time. "
Eric Schmidt
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" In general in technology, if you own a platform that's valuable, you can monetize it. "
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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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Time
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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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Believe
" 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. "
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" I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something. "
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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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Focus
Better
Quality
" 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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Inside
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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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Humanity
Anarchy
Understand
" 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. "
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Second Chance
You
Wrong
" 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. "
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Loss
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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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Bad
Used
Things
" The issues of wireless versus wireline gets very messy. And that's really an FCC issue, not a Google issue. "
Eric Schmidt
Messy
Really
Google
" 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. "
Eric Schmidt
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You
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" 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. "
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Decisions
Internet
People
" 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
" People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots. "
Eric Schmidt
People
Out
Idiots
" 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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Search
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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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Way
World
People
" Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive. "
Eric Schmidt
Protection
Technology
Washington
" 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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Government
America
Create
" We weren't here to hope and hang on. We wanted to win. "
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Hang
Were
Win
" 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. "
Eric Schmidt
Impact
Search
Know
" 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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Interesting
Say
Management
" 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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