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• 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.

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  Spring, Government, People

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

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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.

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  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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• 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.

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  People, World, Information

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• 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.

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  Children, Optimistic, People

  "The future according to Mr Google". Interview with Alan Rusbridger, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2013.

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• In many countries adult pornography legislation is an attempt to legislate something else.

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  Country, Adults, Legislation

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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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.

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  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.

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  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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• 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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• 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.

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  Thinking, Doors, Ideas

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

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  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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• 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.

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  Phones, Google, Want

  "Google's Schmidt: Android Leads the iPhone" by Stephen Shankland, www.cnet.com. December 07, 2011.

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• Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.

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  Believe, Google, Belief

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

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  Analysis, Monkeys, Type

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

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  Internet, Environment, Imagine

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

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• The issues of wireless versus wireline gets very messy. And that's really an FCC issue, not a Google issue.

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  Fcc, Issues, Google

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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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