Eric Schmidt Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

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.

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

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

The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.

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.

Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.

One person's definition of evil is another person's different definition.

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.

I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.

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

Find a way to say yes to things.

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.

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

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

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.

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 learning a new language, picking up a new sport. 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 in your life. Yes lets you stand out in a crowd, be the optimist, to stay positive, be the one everyone comes to. Yes is what keeps us all young.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Internet of things will augment your brain.

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.

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.