“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.”
Eric Schmidt“A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.”
Eric Schmidt“I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.”
Eric Schmidt“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.”
Eric Schmidt“I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic - in every one of these places.”
Eric Schmidt“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.”
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.”
Eric Schmidt“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.”
Eric Schmidt“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.”
Eric Schmidt“I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.”
Eric Schmidt“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.”
Eric Schmidt