“don't be evil”？都是耍你们的啦。什么还有人真信了？

xburke

Eric Schmidt thought 'Don't Be Evil' was 'the stupidest rule ever' when he joined Google

Former Google CEO and current chairman Eric Schmidt is known for both a sense of broad techno-utopianism and a willingness to speak out on privacy hot-button issues. While he's spoken about things like the need for an internet "delete button" or laws to regulate drone surveillance, he also helps lead a company that has access to vast amounts of personal data, something that often doesn't sit well with Google users. In a casual, often jokey interview with NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, Schmidt stated once and for all that he could read all our email — but he'd never do it. "I would lose my job, be fired, and be sued to death," he told host Peter Sagal. Whether or not he tried to hide the snooping, "Someone would find out, trust me."

Amidst anecdotes about trapping rogue boa constrictors or the perks of working in Google's offices, Schmidt talked about the company's culture, including the famous "Don't Be Evil" slogan instituted by co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. "The idea was that we don't quite know what evil is, but if we have a rule that says don't be evil, then employees can say, I think that's evil," Schmidt said. "Now, when I showed up, I thought this was the stupidest rule ever, because there's no book about evil except maybe, you know, the Bible or something." In the end, though, he believes it has worked, by giving employees a way to point out things they find unethical.

"THERE'S NO BOOK ABOUT EVIL EXCEPT MAYBE, YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE OR SOMETHING."

Schmidt also half-jokingly confirmed what some of us already suspected about Glass: that nobody has a clear idea of how to use it. What would Glass be used for? "Well, we don't quite know yet. We have maybe 2,000 of these. We've shipped them out to developers, and we're seeing what they develop ... So kind of watch and see what people do with it and then decide what to do." It's a strategy Google has tried before — unfortunately, one of the results was Google Wave.

Google不作恶？施密特笑称很傻很天真

Google一直以来都号称“不作恶”（Don't Be Evil），不过对于这个口号，Google前任CEO、现任执行董事长埃里克·施密特（Eric Schmidt）发表了自己的个人看法，他认为这个规则很傻很天真。
在接受NPR采访时，施密特称不作恶是“有史以来最傻的规则”，因为“关于作恶根本没有什么明文规定，或许，圣经之类的书上有描述。”这个座右铭是Google联合创始人拉里·佩奇（Larry Page）和谢尔盖·布林（Sergey Brin）共同提出的，目的是让Google做一个有道德的公司。
施密特指出，Google自身也说不清楚什么算是作恶，它的效用基本就是能让大家对某个产品或服务提出异议。举例来说，如果Google正在讨论推出一个广告产品，然后有一位工程师站出来说这是“作恶”，然后整个讨论终止，每个人都要进行苦苦思索，这是否算是作恶，最终这个项目可能被终止。
Google经常因为“不作恶”的口号被众人批判，微软还曾发起Scroogled活动来宣扬Gmail侵犯用户引起，是典型的作恶。也许我们可以这样理解施密特的话，正如NPR主持人开的一句玩笑，不作恶在美国商业领域根本行不通。

vacuumsword

口号什么的。我们公司的口号还是Do the right thing!呢……

索兰塔.织

We do the chicken right.

normanzb

In the end, though, he believes it has worked, by giving employees a way to point out things they find unethical.

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nonmoi

等等  wait wait don't tell me是新闻搞笑类型的问答节目。