Eric Schmidt is a highly influential businessman and technology executive, known for his role in leading and shaping major tech companies. His contributions have played a significant role in the digital revolution.
The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.
I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic - in every one of these places.
There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It's constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.
Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.
The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.'
People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.
I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.
I used to say that you'll have 10 IP address on your body... and it looks like that's going to happen through medical monitoring.
People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.