Michael K. Powell Quotes

The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This is happening throughout the world.

A country’s Internet infrastructure, just like it’s physical infrastructure, is essential to its economic competition and growth.

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

You always need to be on the lookout for the next kind of great technology.

The remote area today is more proximate to economic potential. A fiber-optic cable can go where no road or rail ever has.

The bottom line is this: I want America to be at the forefront of innovation in the broadcast sector, the wireless sector, and every other sector of the communications industry.

It's always been about making the best Mac we know how. Among the many benefits are making it easy to use and affordable, with great features.

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.

I get really excited imagining what we can do in the future with broadband.

Well, when we made 'Tron' there was no internet, no cellphones.

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

We love our business. We have never been more enthusiastic about cable and its future.

All Australians understand that high-quality, reliable and affordable broadband is a critical part of the infrastructure our nation needs to prosper in coming years.

Choosing a single most important development is incredibly hard to do because a lot of different things had to happen before the Internet could be deployed in the fashion it is today.

We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.

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

What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher voice quality than they can with the phone lines.

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

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

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

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 smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It's to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure in the areas where market competition won't deliver it.

The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

Information has become the fundamental element of modern life.