Quotes About Eric Schmidt

I was in the room when Sundar convinced Eric Schmidt that it would be possible to unseat Internet Explorer as the world's most popular browser.

Identify your 70/20/10 (or 60/30/10 depending on risk appetite). Most people know of this allocation from the innovation approach that Eric Schmidt pioneered at Google: 70 percent of time allocated to core business tasks, 20 percent to projects directly related to the core business, and 10 percent dedicated to projects unrelated to the core business.

Or, as Eric Schmidt told a reporter when asked just how Google determines the application of its famous unofficial motto, "Evil is what Sergey says is evil.

In early 2004, she gave a progress report at a Google Product Strategy meeting. Eric Schmidt asked her how many publishers AdSense had signed up. He figured the number would be in the thousands. But she reported a number well up in the hundreds of thousands. "They almost fell off their chairs," she said. But not Brin. "That's pretty good," he said. Later people would explain to Malone that Brin's "pretty good" is the equivalent of a Nobel Prize.

At Google's first shareholders meeting, CEO Eric Schmidt elaborated on why he describes Google's mission as "serving the Long Tail.

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.

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.