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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.

  Eric Schmidt

  Giving, Google, Use

  "An Old Eric Schmidt Interview Reveals Google’s End-Game For Search And Competition" by Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.com. January 4, 2013.

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• 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.

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  Mistake, Growth, Size

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• 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.

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  Karma, Sunrise, Bed

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• Silicon Valley's involvement with Washington dates from one event, which was John Scully - who was the CEO of Apple - had dinner with President Clinton and Vice President Gore in 1993. And we're all going, like, 'What's going on? Why would we have dinner with the president?'

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  Apples, President, Vices

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• If you thought when you got your job at 20 that it would never change you were misinformed. Retrain yourself to be curious.

  Eric Schmidt

  Jobs, Curious, Never Change

  "Google's Big Tent event: porn, copyright, Eric Schmidt and all". www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Android is ahead of the iPhone now.

  Eric Schmidt

  Iphone, Androids

  "Google's Schmidt: Android leads the iPhone". www.cnet.com. December 7, 2010.

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• 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?"

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  People, Giving, Focus

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• Even though Google may do very well, there will always be an alternative to what Google is doing, and people will always have the free choice... because there's no way for us to prevent them from exercising that choice. That is one of the key aspects of why the Internet has been so successful. No technologies can dominate.

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  Successful, Exercise, Technology

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• 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.

  Eric Schmidt

  Thinking, Doors, Ideas

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• 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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  Impact, People, Adoption

  "Text of wired's interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt". Interview with Wired, www.wired.com. April 9, 2007.

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

  Eric Schmidt

  Issues, Buttons, Internet

  "Google's Schmidt: The Internet needs a delete button" by Shara Tibken, www.cnet.com. May 6, 2013.

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• The funny thing about advertising is that it's not a zero-sum game... Historically, in the digital ad world, pie has gotten larger and it's possible for everyone to win, and it's perfectly possible that will continue to be true for quite some time.

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  Zero, Winning, Funny Things

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• 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.

  Eric Schmidt

  Thinking, Trying, Video

  "Text of Wired's Interview with Google CEO Eric Shcmidt". Interview with Fred Vogelstein, www.wired.com. April 9, 2009.

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• 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.

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  Google, Quality, Example

  "We're Trying To Answer the Question". Slate Interview, www.slate.com. December 9, 2011.

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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.

  Eric Schmidt

  Thinking, People, Degrees

  "My other interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt" by Fred Vogelstein, www.wired.com. April 09, 2007.

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• 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...

  Eric Schmidt

  Strong, Mean, Thinking

  "Eric Schmidt: 'Google should have gone social sooner'". www.cnn.com. August 24, 2011.

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• 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.

  Eric Schmidt

  Thinking, Play, Accountability

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• People are building communities of people who use video. They're sharing them. YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly.

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  People, Community, Video

  "Text of wired's interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt". Interview with Wired, www.wired.com. April 9, 2007.

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Smartphones, Years

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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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  Memories, World, Very Good

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• 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.

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  People, Variation, World

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• People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots.

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  Thinking, People, Awful

  "Google Chief: My Fears For Generation Facebook" by • Jerome Taylor, www.independent.co.uk. August 18, 2010.

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

  Eric Schmidt

  Internet, Environment, Imagine

  "Google's Eric Schmidt Talks to Charlie Rose". Businessweek, September 23, 2010.

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

  Eric Schmidt

  Analysis, Monkeys, Type

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

  Eric Schmidt

  Data, Information, Way

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