"Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that."
Eric Emerson Schmidt is an American businessman and former computer engineer who was the chief executive officer of Google from 2001 to 2011 and the company's executive chairman from 2011 to 2015. He also was the executive chairman of parent company Alphabet Inc. from 2015 to 2017, and technical advisor at Alphabet from 2017 to 2020. Since 2025, he has been the CEO of Relativity Space, an aerospac
"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."
Eric Schmidt"If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place."
Eric Schmidt"By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded."
Eric Schmidt"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 — theyre just, theyre just literally lying."
Eric Schmidt"I actually think most people dont want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next."
Eric Schmidt"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."
Eric Schmidt