Eric Schmidt Quotations | Page 3

I'm able to bring business expertise but, more importantly, operating experience. The people here at Google are young. Every day there are lots of new challenges. I keep things focused. The speech I give everyday is: "This is what we do. Is what you are doing consistent with that, and does it change the world?"

Android is ahead of the iPhone now,

In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it.

Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences

The biggest mistake that I made was not anticipating the rise of the social networking phenomenon,

The lack of a delete button on the internet is a significant issue,

There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature of our society.

It's because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional resources.

Search companies, which I won't mention by name, tried to do so many things at the same time, they forgot all about search. They either missed the next revolution of search or they created an opening for a Google to enter.

It's a mistake to predict the size of markets that are so new. This model has shown no signs of slowing down. So we are going to get as much of it as we possibly can, and when we get close to that we'll figure out other problems.

It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

Around 400 million people in the last year got a smartphone. If you think that’s a big deal, imagine the impact on that person in the developing world.

Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that.

Ultimately, application vendors are driven by volume, and volume is favored by the open approach Google is taking. There are so many manufacturers working so hard to distribute Android phones globally that whether you like [Android 4.0] or not ... you will want to develop for that platform, and perhaps even first.

I had always assumed that the right way to do it was to these engineers, put them in offices by themselves with doors that they could close so they could think deep thoughts. This is a terrible idea.

The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information,

The average American doesnt realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

There clearly are cases where evil people exist, but you don't have to violate the privacy of every single citizen of America to find them.

Bitcoin is a remarkable cryptographic achievement and the ability to create something which is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value

If you have a child, you'll notice they have two states: asleep or online.

The self driving car is not self-aware. It's just driving; it's not thinking.

Say yes to more things.

Mobile is the future and there's no such thing as communication overload

When companies are growing quickly and they are having a lot of impact, careers take care of themselves.... If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on.

Every 2 days we create as much information as we did up to 2003.

We didn't see any statistically significant relationship between our buzz and our short-term sales...Is that the end of the story? I would say no. This is one study on a set of brands in a particular company within a certain segment of the consumer-packag ed-goods industry. It is by no means a generalized result that applies to all industries.

Show us 14 photos of yourself and we can identify who you are;

We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about;

Twitter can no more produce analysis than a monkey can type out a work of Shakespeare.

In a world where everything is remembered and everything is kept forever, you need to live for the future and things you really care about.

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Mobile use is growing faster than all of Google's internal predictions.

Brands are the solution, not the problem. Brands are how you sort out the cesspool.

The Internet is fast becoming a cesspool where false information thrives.

At Google, operations are not just an afterthought: they are critical to the company's success, and we want to have just as much effort and creativity in this domain as in new product development.

Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.

We're about to see an acceleration in technological platforms that, for marketers, will be on a scale rivalled only by the arrival of color TV.

I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.

Google Maps are phenomenal. Yep, ask an Apple user.

To me, what you want to do is find a way to let this play out between the virtual world and the physical world...Ultimately, I think society will get there. It will be messy, but we'll get there.

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.

I worry that the level of interrupt, the sort of overwhelming rapidity of information — and especially of stressful information — is in fact affecting cognition. It is in fact affecting deeper thinking. I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.
 And I worry that we’re losing that.

Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference in your - and likely in others' lives as well. Yes is what keeps us all young. It's a tiny word that can do big things. Say it often.

There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.

The trend has been mobile was winning. It's now won.

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.

Within search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher than content without such verification, which will result in most users naturally clicking on the top (verified) results. The true cost of remaining anonymous, then, might be irrelevance.

We don't have a traditional strategy process, planning process like you'd find in traditional technical companies. It allows Google to innovate very, very quickly, which I think is a real strength of the company.

If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence at something,

Just remember when you post something, the computers remember forever

None of us is as smart as all of as

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything,

For those who say you're thinking too big... be smart enough not to listen. For those who say the odds are too small ... be dumb enough to give it a shot. And for those who ask, how can you do that?... look them in the eyes and say, Ill figure it out.

Find a way to say yes to things. Say yes to invitations to a new country, say yes to meet new friends, say yes to learn something new. Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new, and make a difference. Yes lets you stand out in a crowd, be the optimist, see the glass full, be the one everyone comes to. Yes is what keeps us all young.

We run the company by questions, not by answers.

Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.

Do not be afraid to fail, but also, do not be afraid to succeed.