Eric Schmidt Quotes

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

I believe that people are too complacent about technology.

I think tech is driving most of the innovation and will continue to for a very, very long time.

The coming changes in technology will be as profound as the creation of the Internet.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

Our technologised society is becoming opaque. As technology becomes more ubiquitous and our relationship with digital devices ever more seamless, our technical infrastructure seems to be increasingly intangible.

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

Technology is an interesting subject, people thinking: how much good, and how much bad, does it inherently carry?

Technological advances have brought our nation to a point where momentous public choices are inescapable.

We cannot blindly embrace the benefits of technology.

The central political problem of our time is how to adapt our venerable democracy to the acceleration of the information age. Modern technology creates a supply of new tools for improved governance, but it also creates an urgent demand for putting these tools to use. We need better policies to obtain the benefits of innovation as quickly as possible and to manage the social problems that speedier innovation will inevitably create—from pollution to weapons of mass destruction.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution demands that CEOs take responsibility for the massive transformation of their businesses and for the extraordinary impact that this transformation will have on wider society.

Technology is advancing at breakneck speed, upending old ways of doing business and resetting the social contract between employers and employees.

It is difficult to predict technology more than 10 years out with any certitude, but what I observe is that change and innovation happens earlier and faster than we expect. We are constantly surprised at what technology can do.

We can trust technology to effect change - that's a given.

I think we have to be more forward-looking when considering any legislation dealing with technology.

Technology moves so quickly; you can't get comfortable with the business you have today because technology will progress.

We live in a world defined by the rapid pace of technological change.