Susan Beth Pfeffer Quotes

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

[The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It's like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There's a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn't really matter

More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.

There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.

With the Internet, information is knowledge and knowledge is freedom.

For Americans, with the advent of the U.S. invention of the Internet, free speech is not just open dissemination of ideas and information. It includes limitless instant access to those ideas and the ability to choose and search from among virtually unlimited sources. It is also the backbone of free enterprise and a vibrant global economy.

Google is arguably one of the greatest inventions. The search engine is one of the greatest inventions in human history.

That's the power of the Internet: you can literally find everything.

I think that the Internet is our most profound and beautiful achievement. It is magnificent. We have the Internet as a layer of our thinking that doesn't control us, we control it, yet we don't have to be aware of it. It will be like a suit that really fits well.

The great thing about living today is that there is this thing called the Interweb, and you can just look up anything.

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.

Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will spread, and it will change those societies in very dramatic ways.

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.

The Internet is the dynamic engine that is driving our economy today and we must keep that open.

Because we know so much more, immediately, about what’s going on all over the world, there is less room to hide.

Overall, the world has never been better informed.

The Internet is the single biggest creator of ignorance mankind has ever created, as well as the single biggest eliminator of that ignorance. It’s our ability to filter that eliminates the former and empowers the latter.

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

Before the Internet, we were in a different sort of dark age. We had to wait to hear news on TV at night or in print the next day. We had to go to record stores to find new music. Cocktail party debates couldn't be settled on the spot.