Eric Schmidt Quotes
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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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We weren't here to hope and hang on. We wanted to win.
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There's nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere.
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Google's architectural model around broadband and services and so forth plays very well to the powerful devices and services Apple is doing. We're a perfect back end to the problems that they're trying to solve.
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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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The policy of America to deny visas to technically trained people in the U.S. and shipped to other countries, where they create companies that compete with America, has to be the stupidest policy of all the U.S. government policies.
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I used to say that you'll have 10 IP address on your body... and it looks like that's going to happen through medical monitoring.
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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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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.
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People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.
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I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.
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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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Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently - is largely defined by detailed analytical views and policy choices that are not very good. You know, each policy choice has a winner and a loser, right? Somebody's ox is getting gored.
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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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Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will spread, and it will change those societies in very dramatic ways.
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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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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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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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The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.
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There's a set of people who are intrinsic oppositionists to everything Google does.
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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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If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
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I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.