ERIC SCHMIDT — I've always said that if the company were founded today on an empty lot, we would build the buildings brick by brick. We can't imagine someone else building our buildings, we'd have to build it ourselves. This is a build-it-yourself culture... For example, we had an accounting system which was an Intuit based system designed for five users, and they were using it for 20 people. It was too slow to use, so I suggested that they implement an Oracle system. It was a huge crisis. We ended up spending $100,000 for this. Larry and Sergey nearly had a cow over it (because they thought it was so expensive). A $100,000 is the cheapest Oracle system ever implemented in history I think. [The Google CEO, in a 2005 interview with Fred Vogelstein, posted up to Wired's site.]

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