Mr. Schmidt, who is a computer scientist and a former researcher at Bell Labs, said the important thing was not so much education in a specific discipline but to “think analytically” and to adopt that mind-set and mode of thought. “I don’t think you necessarily have to do a lot more,” Mr. Schmidt said.
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