John T. Chambers Quotes

The Internet offers untold potential for humanity. To make the most of it, we need to think of the Internet as 'ours.'

A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens.

The digital revolution is one that every community should and can participate in.

Even in mature economies, digital's benefits to society are substantial.

The U.S. has more broadband subscribers than any country other than China. Americans rank at the top in their use of the web, and numerous studies validate that the U.S. is a global innovation powerhouse. The leading Internet and e-commerce companies are located here.

Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace.

As a society, we haven't spent as much time building the citizen Internet.

I joined the Aspen Institute, which is a terrific nonpartisan center. They have a wonderful effort that focuses on the impact of communications technology on society and our economy.

Given that my title at Google is Chief Internet Evangelist, I feel like there is this great challenge before me because we have three billion users, and there are seven billion people in the world.

So long as confusion reigns, there will be no successful global Internet agenda, only contradiction.

Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.

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

The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.

I want to preserve the free and open Internet - the experience that most users and entrepreneurs have come to expect and enjoy today and that has unleashed impressive innovation, job creation, and investment.

Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.

Governments should look at investment in broadband as a national priority on the grounds that having broadband access for virtually everyone creates opportunities for the development of the economy that wouldn't otherwise be available.

We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.

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

We are now living in a completely digitalized world and a completely globalized world, so we have to find some new mechanisms and values to deal with this post-digitalized and post-globalized world.

In France, President Francois Hollande is leveraging the next wave of the Internet to jumpstart economic reforms and create jobs for hundreds of thousands of citizens. A historically socialist government, France has had the courage to quickly implement unique partnerships with the business community to drive entrepreneurial spirit and thinking.

I believe in the power of shared data and technology to help build a better future.

It's one of those secrets that not a lot of politicians realize: The Internet is not a 10th-tier policy issue. It's not an add-on policy. It's something that affects everybody's life.

I think technology can change every country regardless of political party.