Top 13 Eric Schmidt Quotes

If you really want to make money, it’s actually easy. Found an agentic AI company. And I don’t mean one designing agents. I mean build an agent to do something. This is the agentic period in AI and for the next year or two, everyone’s going to build agents. The agents are all going to compete.

Everyone understands climate change is occurring and the people who oppose it are really hurting our children and our grandchildren and making the world a much worse place. And so we should not be aligned with such people — they're just, they're just literally lying.

We have always been the leader in security and in encryption. Our systems are far more secure and encrypted than anyone else, including Apple. They're catching up, which is great.

Playing catch-up with the competition can only ever help you make incremental gains. It will never help you create something new.

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

Ultimately, application vendors are driven by volume, and volume is favored by the open approach Google is taking. There are so many manufacturers working so hard to distribute Android phones globally that whether you like [Android 4.0] or not … you will want to develop for that platform, and perhaps even first.

The current inclination of the company is to invest heavily ... we test stuff and, when it works, we put a lot more emphasis on it. So, Google+ — all the signs are very positive, so now the whole company is ramping up on top of it.

I fundamentally believe that disinformation becomes so easy to generate, because complexity overwhelms knowledge, that it's in people's interests, if you will, over the next decade, to build disinformation-generating systems. This is true for corporations, for marketing, for governments, and so forth." (Eric Schmidt in dialogue with Julian Assange, June 2011 c.f When Google Met Wikileaks, p. 174)

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

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.

If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.

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

When you use Google, do you get more than one answer? Of course you do. Well, that’s a bug. We have more bugs per second in the world. We should be able to give you the right answer just once. We should know what you meant. You should look for information. We should get it exactly right and we should give it to you in your language and we should never be wrong. That’s our challenge.