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Sending luv not related love you dad hubby president lol email me k so can anything else be aboute can we change that. Pls. Love you I'll send some ideas notes even crazy ones k. Luvs ya Sundance not Sundance Sam
I had to comment on this. This man is being presented in a very very favorable light. Wikipedia is being used a propaganda tool for people like Schmidt that have deep personal flaws and run companies that expose everyone else while hiding behind PR cleansed articles like this. THis is a shame and a sham of an article and it clearly shows that with enough money the most evil people on earth can get a fresh start here. mickrussom ( talk) 16:19, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
Sounds like Google PR piece.
Nothing wrong with having an article about this person, if it were properly wikified. RickK 07:48, 25 Oct 2003 (UTC)
I have some interesting materials to add, like Eric's Novell history and history at Sun. Jeffrey Vernon Merkey 05:23, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
How do you write that????
"Schmidt is an avid proponent of the nothing to hide philosophy"??? In Political Views? As his only Political View??? Just a sentence, just for a sentence???
I suggest to either delete this or give more information on this topic, but, "an avid proponent of the nothing to hide philosophy"? :S!|@@#$ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.104.234.130 ( talk) 14:48, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
According to Ryan Tate, "Tech's Winner's and Losers of 2010", Gawker, 28 Dec 2010 Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said on CNN that if you object to Google's password sniffing vans, move your residence; and that if you wish to escape Google's search engine, change your name.
On the "just move" gaff he did offer a retraction: "....I clearly misspoke. If you are worried about Street View and want your house removed please contact Google and we will remove it."
The name change idea is so that after kids put stupid stunts on social media sites as minors, when they reach adulthood they can just change their name to expunge their record. scary ideas for children
Quote from a CNBC interview: ""If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."" secrets are for filthy people
Holman W. Jenkins Jr., "Google and the Search for the future", Wall Street Journal, 14 Aug 2010 commented: "Mr. Schmidt is surely right, though, that the questions go far beyond Google. "I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time," he says. He predicts, apparently seriously, that every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends' social media sites."
Schmidt has a way of making off-the-cuff statements that require clarification, and no lack of folks who find the original gaffs mind-boggling. I found this in just a couple hours browsing. I am afraid if his gaffs, critical reactions and retractions or clarifications were added to the article, it would become a mess. Naaman Brown ( talk) 14:13, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
Right, I'll ennumerate the specific problems with this article, so that they can be addressed. Jeff's getting very protective of his edits, and I've been reverted twice today:
While at Sun Microsystems, Eric Schmidt was interviewed by Fast Company, a Silicon Valley News Agency. During the interview, Eric Schmidt indicated he believed that "sex" oriented businesses were the future of the computing industry. Several months after these interviews were published, Schmidt was recruited by Novell to the CEO position. One notable excerpt from these interviews:
...Eric Schmidt, Sun's chief technology officer, is leaning back in a plush executive chair. Eric is thinking about sex. A smile is on his lips, and a deep, satisfied light radiates from his eyes. He has grasped a liberating truth: sex -- not microchips and software -- is the key to the future of business. Eric Schmidt's job at Sun is to spawn and nurture new businesses. For Eric, organizational sex is a rich, vibrant topic. His days are often spent in flirtations -- and sometimes full-fledged assignations -- with new companies and their founders. What he tries to do is create a union of the fertile ideas of rebels and visionaries and the organizational DNA of Sun. [4]
Everything in the 'Novell' section needs a citation.
Furthermore:
These businesses then became major suppliers of video servers and c
aching servers with a large percentage of the customer base being affiliated with the adult entertainment industry and sex video oriented businesses.
Due to a serious tactical error on Schmidt's part...
...and departure of key technologists from the company, coupled with lawsuits and allegations in US District Court, District of Utah of Sexual Harrassment and Retaliation by Novell Executives during Schmidt's administration.
There's a dangling "</ref>" available in the body of the text, around third paragraph down. I can't seem to find what's wrong with it. Fixed it. --
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19:07, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
There are at least two things on this page which need citations. First of all, evidence that Schmidt was a co-creator of lex, and secondly, the part under the Trivia section about his $1723 holiday bonus (the current citation mentions nothing about this). Is this an Illuminati reference? Foolingmachine 06:07, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
While at Sun Microsystems, Eric Schmidt was interviewed by Fast Company, a Silicon Valley News Agency. During the interview, Eric Schmidt indicated he believed that "sex" oriented businesses were the future of the computing industry. Several months after these interviews were published, Schmidt was recruited by Novell to the CEO position. One notable excerpt from these interviews:
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Sir Eric: If you watch and read this article/TALK, I second the "Thank You!" and enjoyed your hour interview on the Glenn Beck Show, talking about The New Digital Age. — Charles Edwin Shipp ( talk) 02:16, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
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How is this stupid excerpt even relevant to this guy? I hate reading this sort of agenda laiden schwag when I am trying to research a person. Seriously, get over your weird issues, idiots. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.79.24.121 ( talk) 12:36, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
Per User:Werdna/JVM Block, Jeff Merkey the person (not just the account) is banned from WP forever. Follow the link on Werdna's sub-page to the AN/I for a discussion of how the IP address is determined to be Jeff. Then per WP:BLOCK and WP:SOCK, 166.70.238.44 is de facto banned.
Can we get an admin to put in a hard IP block? And then checkuser the IP for any sockpuppet accounts?
rm edits of banned user, per policy. 67.40.133.205 ( talk) 03:58, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
I have corrected the quotation in the article. The exact statement he made to CNBC's Maria Bartiromo is, "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." Dollarwizard ( talk) 14:23, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
This section should be removed from the article anyway. It's sensationalist garbage and painfully biased, which is really not fitting for an encyclopedia. Eric Schmidt has never claimed to adhere to a "nothing to hide" philosophy. The included quote comes from a Slashdot mangling of the quote which is nothing more than a link to a Register article (that also mangles the quote) that is nothing more than a link to an angrily written Gawker piece. In none of these pieces is the entire quote even shown. The most complete recreation of the quote out of all three of these rant pieces is a video in Gawker piece that includes a cut up and incomplete rehashing of the original quote. To use one cut-up and incomplete quote that doesn't even say what you're claiming it says to argue that he is an "avid proponent" of the philosophy is incorrect and wholly dishonest. 69.244.64.30 ( talk) 15:02, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Another thing: if this information belongs in the article, it should be the last section in the article. Pfagerburg ( talk) 03:31, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: page moved by silent consensus. Arbitrarily0 ( talk) 04:53, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Eric E. Schmidt → Eric Schmidt — Already redirects here, and he is almost always referred to without his middle initial. Gary King ( talk · scripts) 05:33, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
In June 2011 he was videographed at the Bilderberg Conference in Switzerland.(See: "Mysterious group caught on camera")
Petey Parrot ( talk) 03:45, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
The source is actually a blog that suggests that as a joke caption. So it should not be stated as a fact, unless evidence is provided that Schmidt actually said that. W Nowicki ( talk) 19:55, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
The article states that he grew up in Blackburg yet graduated from Yorktown High School -- with a link to Yorktown high school in Arlington, VA.
Which is correct?
Dharris ( talk) 16:25, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
I think maybe we should use a different photo of Schmidt - the current picture shows him frowning with his arms crossed, with generally negative body language, that is likely to leave readers with a somewhat negative bias towards the man. I know I certainly wouldn't want a photo like that to be used if I had a wikipedia article. Rikeus ( talk) 14:56, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
Epeefleche reverted an edit to a potentially libelous statement in the biography section:
″In 2012, he was dating concert pianist Chau-Giang Nguyen, who was engaged to Hollywood Oscar-winning TV and movie producer Brian Grazer until they split in 2011. [1] [2]″
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Although the NY Post is considered an RS, there is absolutely no confirmation in either article that he had a dating relationship with concert pianist Chau-Giang Nguyen. I request the above statement be removed, per Wikipedia's rules: ″Unsourced or poorly sourced contentious material about living persons must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous.″ 71.160.33.246 ( talk) 23:09, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
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It should be noted that Schmidt has apparently co-authored at least two books: [7] -- Beland ( talk) 06:19, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Here is what Amazon lists for Eric Schmidt (following the link just above.)
It could be added to the article that he wrote the foreword for the Draper book. — FYI, Charles Edwin Shipp ( talk) 01:44, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
His new release in paperback will require a separate article: The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People , Nations and Business. It is in the news today and will be in more news as it becomes more available. What it talks about will be more appropriate for sections here. Charles Edwin Shipp ( talk) 02:21, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
According to the current Princeton University site, Schmidt is no longer a current trustee 2014-15. According to reference from 2010 from Internet Archive, he was a trustee during the 2005-2006 term: "Princeton University Board of Trustees 2005-2006". Archived from the original on 2010-01-26. Looking further back in time, Schmidt was not listed in the 2003-2004 term: "Princeton University Board of Trustees 2003-2004". Archived from the original on 2004-05-02.
According to the Trustees for Institute of Advanced Studies, Schmidt is a current member of the board. I plan updating the main page with this facts. Please feel free to comment, correct or expand. -- DutchTreat ( talk) 14:28, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
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What justifies the phrase "use of artificial distinctions to avoid paying ... tax" under the section "Tax Avoidance"? It is not clear what the "artificial distinctions" are, and I don't see the phrase being used in the citations. Ezrakilty ( talk) 01:43, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
I have been away since 1995 on a government project in the southern states Alabama mainly Deric00 ( talk) 21:32, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
From the article: "Schmidt was also criticised for his inaccurate use of the term 'capitalism' to describe billions of dollars being transferred into tax havens where no economic activity was actually taking place." There is no evidence of this criticism in the article referenced. Be best to just delete this sentence instead of risking more controversy. 152.208.55.114 ( talk) 10:48, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
Shouldn't we add a mention of Schmidt's US$100 million company Steel Perlot, which he founded with Michelle Ritter? Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2023/10/23/eric-schmidt-michelle-ritter-steel-perlot/ 2605:A000:FFC0:5F:F9BD:9D:B97C:57D4 ( talk) 22:59, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
This seems notable. Where should it go? Mention of ES in https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/21/the-jet-set-200-celebrities-aircraft-have-flown-for-combined-total-of-11-years-since-2022 92.10.181.19 ( talk) 00:22, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
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Sending luv not related love you dad hubby president lol email me k so can anything else be aboute can we change that. Pls. Love you I'll send some ideas notes even crazy ones k. Luvs ya Sundance not Sundance Sam
I had to comment on this. This man is being presented in a very very favorable light. Wikipedia is being used a propaganda tool for people like Schmidt that have deep personal flaws and run companies that expose everyone else while hiding behind PR cleansed articles like this. THis is a shame and a sham of an article and it clearly shows that with enough money the most evil people on earth can get a fresh start here. mickrussom ( talk) 16:19, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
Sounds like Google PR piece.
Nothing wrong with having an article about this person, if it were properly wikified. RickK 07:48, 25 Oct 2003 (UTC)
I have some interesting materials to add, like Eric's Novell history and history at Sun. Jeffrey Vernon Merkey 05:23, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
How do you write that????
"Schmidt is an avid proponent of the nothing to hide philosophy"??? In Political Views? As his only Political View??? Just a sentence, just for a sentence???
I suggest to either delete this or give more information on this topic, but, "an avid proponent of the nothing to hide philosophy"? :S!|@@#$ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.104.234.130 ( talk) 14:48, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
According to Ryan Tate, "Tech's Winner's and Losers of 2010", Gawker, 28 Dec 2010 Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said on CNN that if you object to Google's password sniffing vans, move your residence; and that if you wish to escape Google's search engine, change your name.
On the "just move" gaff he did offer a retraction: "....I clearly misspoke. If you are worried about Street View and want your house removed please contact Google and we will remove it."
The name change idea is so that after kids put stupid stunts on social media sites as minors, when they reach adulthood they can just change their name to expunge their record. scary ideas for children
Quote from a CNBC interview: ""If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."" secrets are for filthy people
Holman W. Jenkins Jr., "Google and the Search for the future", Wall Street Journal, 14 Aug 2010 commented: "Mr. Schmidt is surely right, though, that the questions go far beyond Google. "I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time," he says. He predicts, apparently seriously, that every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends' social media sites."
Schmidt has a way of making off-the-cuff statements that require clarification, and no lack of folks who find the original gaffs mind-boggling. I found this in just a couple hours browsing. I am afraid if his gaffs, critical reactions and retractions or clarifications were added to the article, it would become a mess. Naaman Brown ( talk) 14:13, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
Right, I'll ennumerate the specific problems with this article, so that they can be addressed. Jeff's getting very protective of his edits, and I've been reverted twice today:
While at Sun Microsystems, Eric Schmidt was interviewed by Fast Company, a Silicon Valley News Agency. During the interview, Eric Schmidt indicated he believed that "sex" oriented businesses were the future of the computing industry. Several months after these interviews were published, Schmidt was recruited by Novell to the CEO position. One notable excerpt from these interviews:
...Eric Schmidt, Sun's chief technology officer, is leaning back in a plush executive chair. Eric is thinking about sex. A smile is on his lips, and a deep, satisfied light radiates from his eyes. He has grasped a liberating truth: sex -- not microchips and software -- is the key to the future of business. Eric Schmidt's job at Sun is to spawn and nurture new businesses. For Eric, organizational sex is a rich, vibrant topic. His days are often spent in flirtations -- and sometimes full-fledged assignations -- with new companies and their founders. What he tries to do is create a union of the fertile ideas of rebels and visionaries and the organizational DNA of Sun. [4]
Everything in the 'Novell' section needs a citation.
Furthermore:
These businesses then became major suppliers of video servers and c
aching servers with a large percentage of the customer base being affiliated with the adult entertainment industry and sex video oriented businesses.
Due to a serious tactical error on Schmidt's part...
...and departure of key technologists from the company, coupled with lawsuits and allegations in US District Court, District of Utah of Sexual Harrassment and Retaliation by Novell Executives during Schmidt's administration.
There's a dangling "</ref>" available in the body of the text, around third paragraph down. I can't seem to find what's wrong with it. Fixed it. --
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19:07, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
There are at least two things on this page which need citations. First of all, evidence that Schmidt was a co-creator of lex, and secondly, the part under the Trivia section about his $1723 holiday bonus (the current citation mentions nothing about this). Is this an Illuminati reference? Foolingmachine 06:07, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
While at Sun Microsystems, Eric Schmidt was interviewed by Fast Company, a Silicon Valley News Agency. During the interview, Eric Schmidt indicated he believed that "sex" oriented businesses were the future of the computing industry. Several months after these interviews were published, Schmidt was recruited by Novell to the CEO position. One notable excerpt from these interviews:
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Sir Eric: If you watch and read this article/TALK, I second the "Thank You!" and enjoyed your hour interview on the Glenn Beck Show, talking about The New Digital Age. — Charles Edwin Shipp ( talk) 02:16, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
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How is this stupid excerpt even relevant to this guy? I hate reading this sort of agenda laiden schwag when I am trying to research a person. Seriously, get over your weird issues, idiots. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.79.24.121 ( talk) 12:36, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
Per User:Werdna/JVM Block, Jeff Merkey the person (not just the account) is banned from WP forever. Follow the link on Werdna's sub-page to the AN/I for a discussion of how the IP address is determined to be Jeff. Then per WP:BLOCK and WP:SOCK, 166.70.238.44 is de facto banned.
Can we get an admin to put in a hard IP block? And then checkuser the IP for any sockpuppet accounts?
rm edits of banned user, per policy. 67.40.133.205 ( talk) 03:58, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
I have corrected the quotation in the article. The exact statement he made to CNBC's Maria Bartiromo is, "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." Dollarwizard ( talk) 14:23, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
This section should be removed from the article anyway. It's sensationalist garbage and painfully biased, which is really not fitting for an encyclopedia. Eric Schmidt has never claimed to adhere to a "nothing to hide" philosophy. The included quote comes from a Slashdot mangling of the quote which is nothing more than a link to a Register article (that also mangles the quote) that is nothing more than a link to an angrily written Gawker piece. In none of these pieces is the entire quote even shown. The most complete recreation of the quote out of all three of these rant pieces is a video in Gawker piece that includes a cut up and incomplete rehashing of the original quote. To use one cut-up and incomplete quote that doesn't even say what you're claiming it says to argue that he is an "avid proponent" of the philosophy is incorrect and wholly dishonest. 69.244.64.30 ( talk) 15:02, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Another thing: if this information belongs in the article, it should be the last section in the article. Pfagerburg ( talk) 03:31, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: page moved by silent consensus. Arbitrarily0 ( talk) 04:53, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Eric E. Schmidt → Eric Schmidt — Already redirects here, and he is almost always referred to without his middle initial. Gary King ( talk · scripts) 05:33, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
In June 2011 he was videographed at the Bilderberg Conference in Switzerland.(See: "Mysterious group caught on camera")
Petey Parrot ( talk) 03:45, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
The source is actually a blog that suggests that as a joke caption. So it should not be stated as a fact, unless evidence is provided that Schmidt actually said that. W Nowicki ( talk) 19:55, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
The article states that he grew up in Blackburg yet graduated from Yorktown High School -- with a link to Yorktown high school in Arlington, VA.
Which is correct?
Dharris ( talk) 16:25, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
I think maybe we should use a different photo of Schmidt - the current picture shows him frowning with his arms crossed, with generally negative body language, that is likely to leave readers with a somewhat negative bias towards the man. I know I certainly wouldn't want a photo like that to be used if I had a wikipedia article. Rikeus ( talk) 14:56, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
Epeefleche reverted an edit to a potentially libelous statement in the biography section:
″In 2012, he was dating concert pianist Chau-Giang Nguyen, who was engaged to Hollywood Oscar-winning TV and movie producer Brian Grazer until they split in 2011. [1] [2]″
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Although the NY Post is considered an RS, there is absolutely no confirmation in either article that he had a dating relationship with concert pianist Chau-Giang Nguyen. I request the above statement be removed, per Wikipedia's rules: ″Unsourced or poorly sourced contentious material about living persons must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous.″ 71.160.33.246 ( talk) 23:09, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
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It should be noted that Schmidt has apparently co-authored at least two books: [7] -- Beland ( talk) 06:19, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Here is what Amazon lists for Eric Schmidt (following the link just above.)
It could be added to the article that he wrote the foreword for the Draper book. — FYI, Charles Edwin Shipp ( talk) 01:44, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
His new release in paperback will require a separate article: The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People , Nations and Business. It is in the news today and will be in more news as it becomes more available. What it talks about will be more appropriate for sections here. Charles Edwin Shipp ( talk) 02:21, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
According to the current Princeton University site, Schmidt is no longer a current trustee 2014-15. According to reference from 2010 from Internet Archive, he was a trustee during the 2005-2006 term: "Princeton University Board of Trustees 2005-2006". Archived from the original on 2010-01-26. Looking further back in time, Schmidt was not listed in the 2003-2004 term: "Princeton University Board of Trustees 2003-2004". Archived from the original on 2004-05-02.
According to the Trustees for Institute of Advanced Studies, Schmidt is a current member of the board. I plan updating the main page with this facts. Please feel free to comment, correct or expand. -- DutchTreat ( talk) 14:28, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
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What justifies the phrase "use of artificial distinctions to avoid paying ... tax" under the section "Tax Avoidance"? It is not clear what the "artificial distinctions" are, and I don't see the phrase being used in the citations. Ezrakilty ( talk) 01:43, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
I have been away since 1995 on a government project in the southern states Alabama mainly Deric00 ( talk) 21:32, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
From the article: "Schmidt was also criticised for his inaccurate use of the term 'capitalism' to describe billions of dollars being transferred into tax havens where no economic activity was actually taking place." There is no evidence of this criticism in the article referenced. Be best to just delete this sentence instead of risking more controversy. 152.208.55.114 ( talk) 10:48, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
Shouldn't we add a mention of Schmidt's US$100 million company Steel Perlot, which he founded with Michelle Ritter? Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2023/10/23/eric-schmidt-michelle-ritter-steel-perlot/ 2605:A000:FFC0:5F:F9BD:9D:B97C:57D4 ( talk) 22:59, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
This seems notable. Where should it go? Mention of ES in https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/21/the-jet-set-200-celebrities-aircraft-have-flown-for-combined-total-of-11-years-since-2022 92.10.181.19 ( talk) 00:22, 24 November 2023 (UTC)