"- The following is a conversation with Eric Schmidt. He was the CEO of Google for 10 years and a chairman for six more, guiding the company through an incredible period of growth and a series of world..."

"What was the first moment when you fell in love with technology? - I grew up in 1960's as a boy where every boy wanted to be an astronaut and part of the space program. So like everyone else of my age..."

"- [Lex] There's a transformative inspiring aspect of science and math that maybe rockets would instill in individuals. You mentioned yesterday that eighth grade math is where the journey through mathe..."

"- I think what happens with people like myself is that you're math-enabled pretty early, and all of the sudden you discover that you can use that to discover new insights. The great scientists will al..."

"The repository that GitHub represents and that open-source libraries represent is an enormous bank of knowledge of all of the people who are doing that. And one of the lessons that I learned at Google..."

"And the Altos were very rare, and I had to drive an hour from Berkeley to go use them, but I made a point of skipping classes and doing whatever it took to have access to this extraordinary achievemen..."

"Information, medicine, health, education, and so forth, work on those problems. - [Lex] Like you said, you're a big fan of the middle class-- - 'Cause there's so many of them. - [Lex] There's so many ..."

"even if you start in a little corner somewhere. - [Lex] So as you look to the 70's but also in the decades to come and you saw computers, did you see them as tools, or was there a little element of an..."

"that these core platforms of hardware and software take a decade. So think about self-driving cars. Self-driving cars were thought about in the 90's. There were projects around them. The first DARPA G..."

"So here's an example. Moore's law as we know it, the thing that powered improvement in CPUs has largely halted in its traditional shrinking mechanisms because the costs have just gotten so high and it..."

"The algorithms feel faster for that reason. - [Lex] And so when you think about, whether it's fiber or just technologies in general, so there's this Barbara Wootton poem or quote that I really like. I..."

"- [Lex] And you've been amazingly honest about, in an inspiring way, about things you've been wrong about predicting, and you've obviously been right about a lot of things. But in this kind of tension..."

"So one way you could express this is that the current business is successful enough that we have the luxury of making bets. And another one that you could say is that we have the wisdom of being able ..."

"Sergey, again 15 years ago, came up with a concept called 10% of the budget should be on things that are unrelated. It was called 70/20/10. 70% of our time on core business, 20% on adjacent business, ..."

"There are people who are working on AI safety, which is the issue that you're describing, and there are conversations in the community that should there be such problems what should the rules be like?..."

"- [Lex] And on that line of thinking, you said the timescale. In this topic or other topics have you found a useful, on the business side or the intellectual side, to think beyond five to 10 years, to..."

"- [Lex] And you've mentioned an interesting statistic on some very large percentage, 60%, 70% of people may live in cities. - Today more than half the world lives in cities, and one of the great stori..."

"- [Lex] So first of all, you are but you've also worked with some of the greatest leaders in the history of tech. What insights do you draw from the difference in leadership styles of yourself, Steve ..."

"At the end of the day, when you're at the top of these organizations, all of the easy questions have been dealt with. How should we design the buildings? Where should we put the colors on our products..."

"So now it's 2018, actually 20 years later. There are many good personal AI assistants, including, of course, the best from Google. So you've spoken in medical and education the impact of such an AI as..."

"Or do you simply follow the passion just because there's no other choice? - I think the people who are in universities are always trying to study the extraordinarily chaotic nature of innovation and e..."

"or perhaps there's another one. But at the end of the day, the successful entrepreneurs are not as crazy as they sound. They see an opportunity based on what's happened. Let's use Uber as an example. ..."

"- [Lex] And the psychology of that moment. So when Sergey and Larry talk about, in listening to a few interviews, it's very nonchalant. Well here's a very fascinating web data, and here's an algorithm..."

"What's the next one? - [Lex] So you're one of, if I may say, richest people in the world, and yet it seems that money is simply a side effect of your passions and not an inherent goal. But you're a fa..."