Quotes from Eric Schmidt

There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It's constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.

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.

Fast learners win.

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.

If you think about the history of the PC industry, the PC industry has essentially been nothing but acquisitions by one company or another. Dell is the outlier. Dell built its own culture. They automated themselves to be the most efficient manufacturer.

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.

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

Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.

In general in technology, if you own a platform that's valuable, you can monetize it.

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

And 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.

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

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.

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

We weren't here to hope and hang on. We wanted to win.

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

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.

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

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.

People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.

People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.

In our case, we focus on quality, and we have a very simple model. If we show fewer ads that are more targeted, those ads are worth more. So we're in this strange situation where we show a smaller number of ads and we make more money because we show better ads. And that's the secret of Google.