Quotes in the News – Eric Schmidt

Day-to-day adult supervision no longer needed!

— Eric Schmidt

Eric Schmidt, Google’s Chief Executive Officer, announced Friday that he is stepping down from his post with the above message today via Twitter. (Read his full statement here.) Meanwhile, the internet laments the end of his most quotable foot-in-mouth moments.

While rumours spread that he may be taking over from Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple, we compiled the Top 10 Eric Schmidt Quotes. Despite his retractable remarks, his quotes on the future of technology in the internet age are brilliant and insightful.

And who knows? He might even be a future nominee for the Foot in Mouth award from the Plain English Campaign!

Top 10 Eric Schmidt Quotes

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

We don’t need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.
— Eric Schmidt

One day we had a conversation where we figured we could just try to predict the stock market. And then we decided it was illegal. So we stopped doing that.
— Eric Schmidt

Just remember when you post something, the computers remember forever.
— Eric Schmidt

Most people don’t want Google to answer their questions […] They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.
— Eric Schmidt

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.
— Eric Schmidt

What we’re really doing is building an augmented version of humanity
— Eric Schmidt

I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.
— Eric Schmidt

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