The Internet of things will augment your brain. — Eric Schmidt

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. — Eric Schmidt

The lack of a delete button on the internet is a significant issue. — Eric Schmidt

There’s nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere. — Eric Schmidt

Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that. — Eric Schmidt

There’s a set of people who are intrinsic oppositionists to everything Google does. — Eric Schmidt

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. — Eric Schmidt

Google Maps are phenomenal. Yep, ask an Apple user. — Eric Schmidt

Google is very much a not–invented–here, build–it–ourselves culture. — Eric Schmidt

His contribution to the success of google and now alphabet inc is incalculable. — Eric Schmidt

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

By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded. — Eric Schmidt

The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there’s an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media. — Eric Schmidt

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. — Eric Schmidt

Google dress code was: ‘You must wear something’. — Eric Schmidt

A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we’d say, ‘Boy, that’s interesting. Let’s add some more engineers.’ — Eric Schmidt

Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model. — Eric Schmidt

At Google, operations are not just an afterthought: they are critical to the company’s success, and we want to have just as much effort and creativity in this domain as in new product development. — Eric Schmidt

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. — Eric Schmidt

To me, what you want to do is find a way to let this play out between the virtual world and the physical world…Ultimately, I think society will get there. It will be messy, but we’ll get there. — Eric Schmidt

In a networked world, trust is the most important currency. — Eric Schmidt

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory. — Eric Schmidt

Steve Jobs was one of the greatest business divas the world has ever known!) — Eric Schmidt

In a world where everything is remembered and everything is kept forever, you need to live for the future and things you really care about. — Eric Schmidt

In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it. — Eric Schmidt

Around 400 million people in the last year got a smartphone. If you think that’s a big deal, imagine the impact on that person in the developing world. — Eric Schmidt

When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world. — Eric Schmidt

The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest. — Eric Schmidt

If you thought when you got your job at 20 that it would never change you were misinformed. Retrain yourself to be curious. — Eric Schmidt

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

Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing. — Eric Schmidt

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. — Eric Schmidt

If you want to change people’s behavior, you need to touch their hearts, not just win the argument. We call this the Oprah Winfrey rule. — Eric Schmidt

Do not be afraid to fail, but also, do not be afraid to succeed. — Eric Schmidt

We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about. — Eric Schmidt

As far As we know, the letters we are aware of have gone to county sheriffs and no one else, but we might open up the mail tomorrow morning and find something of a surprise. — Eric Schmidt

The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting. — Eric Schmidt

The core problem is that the world is full of people who would like to take 99 per cent of the information that’s on the Internet, and eliminate 1 per cent. Everyone has their own thing they don’t like. — Eric Schmidt

The Internet is fast becoming a cesspool where false information thrives. — Eric Schmidt

The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information. — Eric Schmidt

Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003. — Eric Schmidt

It’s because of this fundamental shift towards user–generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional resources. — Eric Schmidt

There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days. — Eric Schmidt

We want to make sure the thing you’re looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time. — Eric Schmidt

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

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

The most valuable result of 20 percent time isn’t the products and features that get created, it’s the things that people learn when they try something new. — Eric Schmidt

In whatever number of years I have on Earth, I think that promoting the values of free expression, the openness of the Internet, that’s the best use of my time. — Eric Schmidt

Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example. — Eric Schmidt