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Eric Schmidt, born on April 27, 1955, is an accomplished software engineer with extensive experience in the Silicon Valley. He has had a profound impact on the internet and technology industries, serving as the CEO of Google and leading the company to rapid growth and innovation in internet search technology.

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Famous Eric Schmidt Quotes

“A-i da clientului ce-şi doreşte contează mai puțin decât a-i da ceea ce încă nu ştie că îşi doreşte.”

Google Client Dorințe

Book:How Google Works

Source: How Google Works

“Inteligența este cel mai bun indicator al capacității unei persoane de a face față schimbării.”

Google Schimbare Inteligență

Book:How Google Works

Source: How Google Works

“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.”

Want Firsts Hard Approach Phones Driven Application Platforms Volume Google Androids Vendors Working So Hard

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“Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.”

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“The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.”

People Thinking Problem Faces Computer Solve Proof Apples Google Computer Science

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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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“Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture.”

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“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.”

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

Ifs Knows Want Firsts Privacy Censorship Google

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

Issues Google Versus Messy Wireless Fcc

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“The more broadband we can get globally, the better. It's better for the world; it's better for our advertisers; it's better for Google.”

World Google Advertisers Broadband

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“We want to make sure the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time.”

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“A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd say, 'Boy, that's interesting. Let's add some more engineers.'”

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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.”

People Way Wells May Has Beens Choices Technology Successful Keys Internet Exercise Aspect Alternatives Google Free Choice

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“Google docs and spreadsheets don't work if you're on an airplane. But it's a technical problem that is going to get solved. Eventually you will be able to work on a plane as if you are connected and, then when you get reconnected to the Internet, your computer will just synchronize with the cloud.”

Ifs Problem Able Internet Computer Clouds Connected Planes Airplane Google

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“I do want to emphasize that we've seen an explosion in the use of Google Maps and Google Earth for education. The earth is a special place. It is our home and it's why we're all here. And the ability to see what's really going on the earth, the good stuff and the bad stuff, at the level that you can, is phenomenal.”

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“I think of Google as a set of overlapping things. It's a consumer platform, consumer phenomenon of which search is its fundamental activity, but there are many other things you can do than search... I think of Google as an advertising company who services the broader advertising industry in the ways that you know.”

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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.”

Use Quality Example Comment Sophisticated Google Twitter And Facebook

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“Remember, when you go to YouTube, you do a search. When you go to Google, you do a search. As we get the search integrated between YouTube and Google, which we're working on, it will drive a lot of traffic into both places. So the trick, overall, is generating more searches, more uses of Google.”

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“The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media.”

People Seems Community Economy Media Missing Traditional Awful Google Competitors Ebay

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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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“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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“We don't have a traditional strategy process, planning process like you'd find in traditional technical companies. It allows Google to innovate very, very quickly, which I think is a real strength of the company.”

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“Google Maps are phenomenal. Yep, ask an Apple user.”

Asks Technology Apples Maps Users Google Phenomenal Google Maps

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“At Google, operations are not just an afterthought: they are critical to the company's success, and we want to have just as much effort and creativity in this domain as in new product development.”

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“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.”

Next Names Company Focus Revolution Internet Opening Google

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

Television Tvs Summer Majority Stores Google Embedded

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

Use Growing Phones Faster Internals Google Predictions Mobile

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Born: April 27, 1955
Known for: Software Engineer
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