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 — they're just, they're just literally lying."

"The current inclination of the company is to invest heavily ... we test stuff and, when it works, we put a lot more emphasis on it. So, Google+ — all the signs are very positive, so now the whole company is ramping up on top of it."

"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."

"By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded."

"Playing catch-up with the competition can only ever help you make incremental gains. It will never help you create something new."

"We have always been the leader in security and in encryption. Our systems are far more secure and encrypted than anyone else, including Apple. They're catching up, which is great."

"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."

"Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences..."

"If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place."

"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."

"Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that."

"I fundamentally believe that disinformation becomes so easy to generate, because complexity overwhelms knowledge, that it's in people's interests, if you will, over the next decade, to build disinformation-generating systems. This is true for corporations, for marketing, for governments, and so forth." (Eric Schmidt in dialogue with Julian Assange, June 2011 c.f When Google Met Wikileaks, p. 174)"

"Wir wissen, wo du bist. Wir wissen, wo du warst. Wir wissen mehr oder weniger, worüber du nachdenkst."

"Für StreetView fahren wir exakt einmal vorbei – also können Sie einfach umziehen."

"Vor einigen Wochen regte er [Eric Schmidt] vermeintlich ernsthaft an, Jugendliche, die sich ihren Ruf durch pubertäre Web-Veröffentlichungen versaut hätten, müssten dann einfach irgendwann ihren Namen wechseln."

"Wenn es etwas gibt, von dem Sie nicht wollen, dass es irgendjemand erfährt, sollten Sie es vielleicht ohnehin nicht tun."

"Offenheit ist meine Religion."