Posts About ‘quotes’

Top 15 of Eric Schmidt’s Remarkable Quotes

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Mr Eric Schmidt, now former CEO of Google, is making a habit out of getting quotes into the media which are to say the least ‘interesting’. In some cases they are plain stupid, in other cases remarkable and sometimes predictable.

One ‘slip of the tongue” on CNN, “Streetview the cars we drive only once, you can just move, right?” was corrected by the pr-department of Google who had Schmidt say he “misspoked”. But this surely wasn’t the only ‘mistake’ by Schmidt. Its interesting (and fun) to look back at some quotes of Schmidt in the past year to see how many times he has now said “something remarkable”.

1. “We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.” 
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Don’t like Streetview? “You can move” Eric Schmidt jokes on CNN…

It is becoming some sort of a running gag. Eric Schmidt showing up in tv shows, at conferences or at press conferences and then trying to be funny. And unfortunately for him, a lot of the times the jokes are misunderstood. And for a reason.

Though Mr Schmidt I think “in real life” most probably is a funny guy and his jokes might do very well in a bar or at a birthday party, I do think that the CEO of Google should choose his jokes more carefully when he is making a public appearance. His timing sometimes just seems to be wrong. Even though personally I like it, I’m not so sure it’s the best way to go for Google. Last Friday “he did it again”. In an interview at CNN he said about those not liking Streetview “You can move…”. See the interview here: (more…)

Schmidt does it again: “The Laws Are Written by Lobbyists”

It more and more looks as if Eric Schmidt is trying to get as much attention as possible by delivering remarkable quotes. At the Washington Ideas Forum last week he did it again.

“Washington is an incumbent protection machine,” Schmidt said. “Technology is fundamentally disruptive.” With his quote against lobbyists, “The Laws Are Written by Lobbyists”, he definitely has not made many friends, no matter how right he may be.

The quote:

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