Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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.

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.

I am sending this message to you by wire, since I want to be certain that this message reaches you in the right place at the right time.

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

One of the most powerful scientific tools ever invented is the telephone.

Globalization cannot take shape without the speed of light.

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.

The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.

Never in history has distance meant less.

I think the Internet has changed the world.

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.

We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.

We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.

I grew up and I've worked with people who have been very present, a) either always jumping to whatever is most modern technologically advanced sort of thing, or b) people in this industry, like Kevin Smith, who, his communication with his fans is hugely connected to his success. And he was talking about that years ago. And David Bowie was doing that years ago. And Prince was doing that years ago.

If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.

Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then think what shadowy ideas they all once were. The wheels of the steamship turned as swiftly as they do now, but as silent and unsubstantial as the motions of the inventor's thought; and in the noiseless loom of his meditation were woven the sinews of the printing-press, whose thunder shakes the world.

North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society.

But we must admit the possibility that continued investigation and experience will bring us ever nearer to that solemn moment, when the first man will rise from earth by means of wings, if only for a few seconds, and mark that historical moment which heralds the inauguration of a new era in our civilization.

Travelling, gentlemen, is medieval, today we have means of communication, not to speak of tomorrow and the day after, means of communication that bring the world into our homes, to travel from one place to another is atavistic.

One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.