Eric Schmidt
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.Collection: Book
It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.Collection: Car
The self driving car is not self-aware. It's just driving; it's not thinking.Collection: Thinking
I spend most of my time assuming the world is not ready for the technology revolution that will be happening to them soon.Collection: Technology
Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.Collection: Technology
The Internet is fast becoming a cesspool where false information thrives.Collection: Information
Brands are the solution, not the problem. Brands are how you sort out the cesspool. ... Brand affinity is clearly hard wired. It is so fundamental to human existence that it's not going away. It must have a genetic component.Collection: Going Away
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.Collection: Irrelevance
The trend has been mobile was winning. It's now won.Collection: Winning
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. Yes is how you find your spouse, and even your kids.Collection: Success
By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded.Collection: Summer
Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.Collection: Information
Since I have access to every, every crisis in the world because it's always blaring at me on cable television, that doesn't mean I have to worry about every one of them. This is also known as knowing where the 'off' button is.Collection: Mean
Mobile is the future, and there's no such thing as communication overload.Collection: Communication
It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.Collection: Car
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.Collection: Leadership
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.Collection: Mistake
In many countries adult pornography legislation is an attempt to legislate something else.Collection: Country
If you thought when you got your job at 20 that it would never change you were misinformed. Retrain yourself to be curious.Collection: Jobs
Android is ahead of the iPhone now.Collection: Iphone
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?"Collection: People
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.Collection: Thinking
The lack of a delete button on the internet is a significant issue.Collection: Issues
I think it's pretty clear that the internet as a whole has not had a strong notion of identity. And identity means, 'Who am I?' Fundamentally, what Facebook has done has built a way to figure out who people are...Collection: Strong
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Thinking
Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that.Collection: Internet
Twitter can no more produce analysis than a monkey can type out a work of Shakespeare.Collection: Analysis
The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information.Collection: Data
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.Collection: Names
It's because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional resources.Collection: People
Google Maps are phenomenal. Yep, ask an Apple user.Collection: Technology
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.Collection: Business
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.Collection: Business
Mobile use is growing faster than all of Google's internal predictions.Collection: Phones
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.Collection: Phones
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.Collection: Mean
Each country makes a different decision on adult pornography, but the good news is that even governments you hate, hate child pornography.Collection: Country
You can understand Tunisia revolution as a failure to censor the internet. And Libya had that failure too. It's very difficult for governments that are autocratic and don't have broad popular support to be in power when a lot of people have these devices. That was what Arab Spring was about, that people could express this and lead to revolution.Collection: Spring
If you're going to make a law, make a law that actually works. It's extraordinarily difficult.Collection: Law