Hubert Burda Quotes

The exchanges of commerce demand stated, reliable, and rapid means of communication.

There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009.

For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.

We covered every major segment of this broadband communications world.

Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now.

The Internet is literally a network of networks.

The transmission systems are still regulated.

The Internet wasn't useful until some basic infrastructure was built.

Can you explain what Internet is?

Through historical accident, we've ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any time.

Data transmission is no longer something scary you don't want in your backyard. Now you want it directly in front of your house.

The Post Office Department is like a great root spreading many feet underground and nourishing the mighty oak. It is the tap root of civilization.

The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.

The Internet, as a platform, I think is really fantastic.

Broadband is not a luxury; it's critical infrastructure.

If it wasn't for the Internet, I don't know where I'd be.

Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around communication channels. Two hundred years ago it was mostly rivers. It was sea-lanes and mountain passes. The Internet is another form of communication and commerce. And society organizes around the channels.

I think cable has been under-appreciated for its contribution to society.

I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.

The most important book on the Internet is, essentially, the Internet.

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

A worldwide web of electronic connections now moves data at ever-increasing speed and volume along what we call the information superhighway.