Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Alphabet, has a nice habit of making very “interesting” statements in public. Upon further analysis, you realize that some of them are pretty stupid, some are brilliant, and some are predictable.
Quite often Mr. Schmidt “slips the tongue” in his interviews, causing a lot of misunderstandings on the Internet. There will undoubtedly be many more pearls from Eric Schmidt, but we will look back to remember how many outstanding quotes there have already been:
- “We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can even more or less guess what you’re thinking.” (Atlantic)
- “If you did something that you didn’t want anyone to know about, maybe you shouldn’t have done it at all!” (CNBC interview)
- “Every young person will one day have the right to automatically change their name when they reach adulthood, to disavow the stupidities and jokes they made in their youth and posted on social media.” (Wall Street Journal)
- "It was a joke, just not a very good one." (To the Colbert Report about his statement number 3)
- “We only drive through the cars that work for the Streetview service once, you can handle that, right?” (CNN interview)
- “Our policy is that we try everything we can, and we are happy even with our failures.” (at the Techonomy conference
- “Just remember, when you post something, the computer saves it forever.” (The Colbert Report)
- "You can trust us with your information." (Telegraph interview)
- “Washington is a sacred defense machine where laws are written by lobbyists.” (Washington Ideas Forum)
- “I really think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions, they want Google to tell them what to do next.” (NewYorkTimes interview)
- “We will get this information by any means, whether we agree or not.” (on information from the Facebook network in an interview with the Telegraph)
- "We want people to use Google even more." (in third-quarter earnings reports)
- “We don’t have a mission to knock Apple out, that’s not how we operate.” (Telegraph interview)
- “Computers will certainly be good at things we’re not good at, and we’ll be good at things computers are certainly not good at.” (Venturebeat)
- “The Internet of Things Will Make Your Brain Bigger.” (Venturebeat)
Which quote did you like the most?
Source: Stateofsearch.com
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