Eric Schmidt

There's nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere.

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.'

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.

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

There's a set of people who are intrinsic oppositionists to everything Google does.

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.

I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving.

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

Fast learners win.

People are building communities of people who use video. They're sharing them. YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly.

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.

Google docs and spreadsheets don't work if you're on an airplane. But it's a technical problem that is going to get solved. Eventually you will be able to work on a plane as if you are connected and, then when you get reconnected to the Internet, your computer will just synchronize with the cloud.

We weren't here to hope and hang on. We wanted to win.

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.

We want to make sure the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time.

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.

The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting.

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

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.

You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it.