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" We weren't here to hope and hang on. We wanted to win. "
Eric Schmidt
Hang
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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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" You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it. "
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" The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists. "
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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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" 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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" 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 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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" 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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" The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting. "
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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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" 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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" 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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You
Think
" 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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Internet
People
" 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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Home
Earth
Education
" There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It's constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime. "
Eric Schmidt
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Technology
Leadership
" In general in technology, if you own a platform that's valuable, you can monetize it. "
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Technology
Own
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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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Science
Face
Day
" 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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Computers
" 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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America
Create
" 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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" 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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" 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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Say
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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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" Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture. "
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Culture
Google
" 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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" 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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" Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing. "
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" The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory. "
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World
Very
" I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something. "
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Sitting
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Best