Eric Schmidt Quotes

People thought I was an idiot, but I saw social networks were going to be more important, and it turned out to be true.

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.

The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box.

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.

Social media is its own sort of thing: Twitter and Facebook have changed the way everyone perceives everything.

Facebook has conquered much of the world.

I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.

Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.

I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.

Error is the price we pay for progress.

There are extraordinary positives and advantages to Facebook and social media and things that genuinely do bring us together. With that comes the horrible negatives of it, but I don't think social media is going anywhere.

I like Diaspora because it's audacious, it's driven by passion, and it's very, very hard to do. After all, who in their right mind would set as a goal taking on Facebook? That's sort of like deciding to build a better search engine - very expensive, with a high likelihood of failure.

The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.

The Internet never ceases to impress me.

I don't think I had a role model. I just was very inspired by an article which I read in Forbes magazine around the information superhighway and the Arpanet and stuff like that. To me, that intuitively made sense, and when I decided to come to the U.S., I knew exactly what I wanted to go and write about.

Mark Zuckerberg has never really had pressure put on him. He's an engineer, and he's created this perfect system that is Facebook, and he's always been concerned about the internal beauty and logic of this creation that he's created. I don't think that the human implications of what he's created have often been apparent to him.

Everything about the Net is wonderful.

The dawn of the 21st century marked the emergence of the social media age.

I invented the Internet.

You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.

Progress is the exploration of our own error.