Eric Schmidt Technology Quotations

If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.

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

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.

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.

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

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 are moving to video because they can. Over the past several years, technology has diminished the barriers to entry.

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.

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

Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.

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

I spend most of my time assuming the world is not ready for the technology revolution that will be happening to them soon,