Maya Lin Quotes

The Internet has turned everybody into a global person, whether they know it or not.

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

As a function of the easy access to information provided by the Internet, and the ease with which it can be shared thanks to social media, consumers are now better informed as to the behavior of brands and the multiple global crises we face.

My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.

With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

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.

We're in a 21st century, transparent and connected world.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

We’re in the Internet age, and so domestic politics is no longer domestic, really, It’s international. I don’t think that has quite hit our politicians.

Overall, the world has never been better informed.

We have recently moved into an era when... everybody can share an inconceivably enormous amount of information just by stroking a few keys on a terminal.

In the digital world of today, one can say almost nothing is local.

I just find it so weird that I can come to another continent and have people turn up. I guess it's just the internet... It just makes it so available to everyone.

When I was growing up, I had three channels, and I didn't know what happened in the Philippines instantly if it happened. Now you can be on the Internet and find out what's going on in Zimbabwe. It's changed.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

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

The Internet makes everything much less mysterious.

Governments can no longer control 100 percent of the story. Time and geographical boundaries disappear. In places like China and all over the Middle East, social-media outlets are being used to expose and hold accountable public officials that don't want to be held accountable for corruption and human rights abuses.

We like to think of the Internet as a border-busting technology.

Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.

Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.

What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.

It's a whole new world out here. The online world is like a blackboard on which, when you write, the whole world can see - and I'm thrilled about this development. I want to make full use of it.