Eric Schmidt Quotes

Eric Emerson Schmidt is an American businessman and software engineer. He is known for being the Executive Chairman of Google from 2001 to 2015 and Alphabet Inc. from 2015 to 2017. In 2017, Forbes ranked Schmidt as the 119th-richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of US$11.1 billion.As an intern at Bell Labs, Schmidt did a complete re-write of Lex, a software program to generate lexical analysers for the UNIX computer operating system. From 1997 to 2001, he was Chief Executive Officer of Novell. From 2001 to 2011, Schmidt served as the CEO of Google. He has served on various other boards in academia and industry, including the Boards of Trustees for Carnegie Mellon University, Apple, Princeton University, and Mayo Clinic.

✵ 27. April 1955
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Famous Eric Schmidt Quotes

“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.”

Eric Schmidt

The Wall Street Journal (August 14, 2010) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704901104575423294099527212.html.

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

Eric Schmidt

Eric Schmidt: Google TV on 'majority' of new TVs by summer 2012 http://theverge.com/2011/12/7/2618225/eric-schmidt-le-web-paris-google-tv-majority-all-tvs in The Verge (7 December 2011).

“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”

Eric Schmidt

CNBC interview, 3 Dec 2009, quoted in Google CEO on Privacy http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/07/google-ceo-on-privacy-if_n_383105.html (18 Mar 2010).

“We have always been the leader in security and in encryption. Our systems are far more secure and encrypted than anyone else, including Apple. They're catching up, which is great.”

Eric Schmidt

Eric Schmidt says Google 'far more secure' than Apple, denies allegations of harvesting data http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/10/02/eric-schmidt-says-google-far-more-secure-than-apple-denies-allegations-of-harvesting-data in AppleInsider (2 October 2014).

“The current inclination of the company is to invest heavily … we test stuff and, when it works, we put a lot more emphasis on it. So, Google+ — all the signs are very positive, so now the whole company is ramping up on top of it.”

Eric Schmidt

With 'Millions' Of Users & Growing, Google+ Set To Power All Google Products http://searchengineland.com/with-millions-of-users-growing-google-set-to-power-all-google-products-85032 in Search Engine Land (9 July 2011).

Eric Schmidt Quotes

“Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences…”

Eric Schmidt

Group calls for ban on spying technology sales http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/367609/group-calls-for-ban-on-spying-technology-sales (25 May 2011).

“Everyone understands climate change is occurring and the people who oppose it are really hurting our children and our grandchildren and making the world a much worse place. And so we should not be aligned with such people — they're just, they're just literally lying.”

Eric Schmidt

'They're just literally lying': Google’s Eric Schmidt on cutting ties with conservative group http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/09/22/theyre-just-literally-lying-googles-eric-schmidt-on-cutting-ties-with-conservative-group in SFGate (22 September 2014).

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

Eric Schmidt

Google's Eric Schmidt Talks to Charlie Rose http://businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_40/b4197039435964.htm in Businessweek (23 September 2010).

“Playing catch-up with the competition can only ever help you make incremental gains. It will never help you create something new.”

Eric Schmidt

Eric Schmidt: 'Playing catch-up with the competition will never help you create something new' http://macdailynews.com/2014/08/27/eric-schmidt-playing-catch-up-with-the-competition-will-never-help-you-create-something-new in MacDailyNews (28 August 2014).

“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. You should look for information. We should get it exactly right and we should give it to you in your language and we should never be wrong. That’s our challenge.”

Eric Schmidt

Charlie Rose interview, 3 Jun 2005 https://charlierose.com/videos/17574, quoted in An Old Eric Schmidt Interview Reveals Google’s End-Game For Search And Competition https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/04/an-old-eric-schmidt-interview-reveals-googles-end-game-for-search-and-competition/ by TechCrunch (4 Jan 2013).

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