Eric Schmidt Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

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

“We used to think that the enterprise was the hardest customer to satisfy, but we were wrong. It turns out, consumers are harder than the enterprise because the consumer will not give you a second chance.”

“Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.”

“People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.”

“There's a set of people who are intrinsic oppositionists to everything Google does.”

“One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It's simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who's online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It's very difficult for governments to dominate the Internet because it's so difficult to control. People want to be free. People want to hear multiple voices. They want to make their own decisions. And people who see things will report things.”

“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.”