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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...

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  Strong, Mean, Thinking

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

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  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 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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• 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.

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  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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• 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.

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  Thinking, Play, Accountability

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

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  Data, Information, Way

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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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• By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded.

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  Summer, Google, Majority

  "Google and Apple to go head to head over 'smart' TVs" by Juliette Garside, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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• Mobile use is growing faster than all of Google's internal predictions.

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  Phones, Google, Use

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Each country makes a different decision on adult pornography, but the good news is that even governments you hate, hate child pornography.

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  Country, Children, Hate

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

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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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• If you're going to make a law, make a law that actually works. It's extraordinarily difficult.

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  Law, Difficult, Working It

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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