Eric Schmidt’s Commencement address at Carnegie Mellon

18 May, 2009 Posted by As Multimedia,News (0) Comment

image After Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, yesterday gave  his commencement  keynote at Carnegie Mellon College.

Schmidt underscored both the importance of technological innovation and understanding the value of the family, friends and people around you. In the commencement, he mentions many times non-Google products such Twitter, Facebook, etc…

Key quotes

Key quotes (via TechCrunch via @CarnegieMellon)

“We got our news from newspapers, your generation gets it from blogs and tweets, and for those of you who don’t know, that’s not what you hear in zoos.”

“We thought ‘friend’ is a noun, you think it’s a verb.”

“You cannot plan innovation. You cannot plan invention. All you can do is try very hard to be at the right place and be ready.”

“How should you behave? Well, do things in a group. Don’t do things by yourself. Groups are stronger, groups are faster. None of us is as smart as all of us.”

“You’ll find today is the best chance you have to start being unreasonable, to demand excellence, to drive change, to make everything happen.”

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