Eric Schmidt Quotes (86 Quotes)


    If I were running a company involved in this research, and I knew I could support that research myself, I'm not sure I'd want the competition of NIH the National Institutes of Health and others working in field,

    We surprised ourselves this quarter. Business was much stronger than I expected.

    People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots.

    They have over 30 programs in the clinic, which for a company this size certainly is one of the better pipelines we've come across,

    You can't know what we are really up to until you are in the bowels of the company,


    Although this is typically a slower season for Internet properties, we had another exceptional quarter, ... Our focus on end users and on quality of information and advertising worldwide continues to work extremely well. We are very pleased with how well this is working at scale.

    Taylor was really aggressive yesterday and that was important for us. She does a good job catching the ball and going to the basket for us and they had a hard time defending her.

    We are going to work to make Sun's software applications more generally available. There are lots of ways to do that.

    We see ourselves in every one of those segments It will be possible in the next few years.

    We are obviously very happy with our first-quarter results. We basically have good news across the business.

    We played well in the first half and had a chance to bury them when we went up by 18 at one time.

    When it comes to the Internet, the size of your pipeline is more important than the hardware at the end of it.

    We have made commitments to the Chinese government that we absolutely follow Chinese law.

    I don't know where (Chinese) revenue growth will be, but it will obviously be large.

    Our strategy is clearly working. Initial customer response to NetWare 5 and new Novell partnerships demonstrate that the market increasingly recognizes that directory is vital to managing information resources in an Internet world,

    Their desire to purchase Chiron should no way put the burden on them to become the next U.S. vaccine supplier.

    We had another strong record-breaking quarter in terms of both revenues and profits. We're very, very pleased, ... This is traditionally a slow season for Internet properties so this momentum shows that, at least from my perspective, we are effectively connecting with our users and our customers.

    To the average fan, we probably look like the underdog. They're undefeated. And most people feel that, from top to bottom, the south half of our section in tougher than the north half.

    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.

    It is really about getting the right ad to the right person at the right time and having them click on it.

    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.

    Our No 1 goal here by far is to serve Chinese users, who want useful information on the Internet.

    We basically have good news across the board -- across the whole business.

    Our business in China is not about revenue, but about serving end users.

    I guess that's something where justice was done. They were the better team and that's just how things go.

    The No. 1 goal, by far, is to serve the Chinese citizen who wants information.

    We missed some shots that normally we make and at times we were a little too unselfish and passed up some good looks.

    We hope to have many other facilities in China. We hope...to take the great cultural works, the books, music and movies...and make them available.

    We will need to be more consistent tonight and play better if we are going to win.

    Believe me, as a computer scientist, we have the ability to detect the invalid clicks before they reach advertisers. The attacks on us are easily detected.

    This is a whole new set of technologies that has heretofore not been discovered, ... The goal is to make life easier to live in the Net.

    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.

    I was worried about how our line would handle Thief River Falls' huge line, but they played well. Nick anchors things on both sides of the ball for us. We'll run behind him when we have to have yards.

    I think we have an advantage in the post. We need to get Taylor involved down low in the offense. They'll have trouble matching up with her. She's not real tall, but Taylor is powerful and has a lot of skills.

    We knew going in that we were the favorite and we just wanted to play well and stay injury free.

    We're attracting a lot more business from Fortune 500 companies,


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