Eric Schmidt
We weren't here to hope and hang on. We wanted to win.Collection: Hope
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.Collection: Computers
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.'Collection: Business
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.Collection: 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.Collection: Technology
In general in technology, if you own a platform that's valuable, you can monetize it.Collection: Technology
People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.Collection: Computers
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.Collection: Positive
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.Collection: Computers
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.Collection: Technology
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.Collection: Computers
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.Collection: Science
I used to say that you'll have 10 IP address on your body... and it looks like that's going to happen through medical monitoring.Collection: Medical
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.
The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.
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.
Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example.
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.
If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
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.
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.
Fast learners win.
You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it.
I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.
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.
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.
Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently - is largely defined by detailed analytical views and policy choices that are not very good. You know, each policy choice has a winner and a loser, right? Somebody's ox is getting gored.
There's a set of people who are intrinsic oppositionists to everything Google does.
There's nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere.
People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots.
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.
The core problem is that the world is full of people who would like to take 99 per cent of the information that's on the Internet, and eliminate 1 per cent. Everyone has their own thing they don't like.
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.
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.
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.
We want to make sure the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time.
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.
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.
People are building communities of people who use video. They're sharing them. YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly.
Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.
The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting.
The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.
The issues of wireless versus wireline gets very messy. And that's really an FCC issue, not a Google issue.
I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.
I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.
I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.
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.
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.
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.
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.