Eric Schmidt – Quotes

If you’re going to

If you’re going to make a law, make a law that actually works. It’s extraordinarily difficult. Eric Schmidt

Each country makes a

Each country makes a different decision on adult pornography, but the good news is that even governments you hate, hate child pornography. Eric Schmidt

In many countries adult

In many countries adult pornography legislation is an attempt to legislate something else. Eric Schmidt

You can understand Tunisia revolution as a failure to censor the internet. And Libya had that failure too. It’s very difficult for governments that are autocratic and don’t have broad popular support to be in power when a lot of people have these devices. That was what Arab Spring was about, that people could express … Read more

I do want to

I do want to emphasize that we’ve seen an explosion in the use of Google Maps and Google Earth for education. The earth is a special place. It is our home and it’s why we’re all here. And the ability to see what’s really going on the earth, the good stuff and the bad stuff, … Read more

The more broadband we

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

The issues of wireless

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

Around 400 million people

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

Google is more than

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