'The internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had. ' -Eric Schmidt
Schmidt, who has served as the Chairman and CEO of Google Inc. since 2001, was educated as an engineer and worked a variety of IT jobs before joining Sun Microsystems in 1983, where he rose to the executive level. Today he is one of the world's most powerful and influential people on the web, and in late 2008 he served on President-elect Obama's transition advisory board.