Quincy Jones Quotes

Men knew little, formerly, of what was passing beyond ... their own immediate neighborhood, but now, through the ... newspapers ... town and country, state and nation, and the most distant parts of the world are brought together, and whatever is new, rare and important, is conveyed with rapidity to every reader ... set forth in the most succinct manner, and in a style adapted to the comprehension of all.

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

We have collapsed distances, taken down walls, and spread information.

Technology has miniaturized the globe, reducing vast oceans to mere ponds. Distant countries are now almost neighbors as our bodies travel faster than the speed of sound and our voices at the speed of light. ... Today the world is not much bigger than a ball spinning on the finger of science.

With the advent of technology the world has surely become a smaller place.

The world is becoming smaller every day.

The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe.

As I have said many times before, the speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light. And it is nothing else!

I think the American people recognize that the world has shrunk. That it's interconnected. That you're not going to put that genie back in the bottle.

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

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

Radio and films, and now television, open for us a window onto everything that goes on throughout the world: the events—and the ideas too—of all humanity invade our homes day after day

Globalization is the speed of light.

Our computers have become windows through which we can gaze upon a world that is virtually without horizons or boundaries.

Today, our world is more interconnected than ever. This offers many opportunities; it creates wealth and new freedoms. Yet our world is also vulnerable, full of friction points and conflicts of interest.

Globalization cannot take shape without the speed of light.

For most of mankind, the average person knew what was happening in his own village and the next one, and nothing beyond that, and he didn't care, so that leaders were able to guide their countries almost irrespective of what people really thought because they weren't involved in it. Now, everybody knows what's happening instantaneously.

There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

As the world gets smaller and communication spreads further and further out there, you try to find the right balance.

I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries.

We live now in a global culture where anything that happens in a place that's 90 minutes from your shores really affects you.

The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.

Today with technological advancement, with the Internet, with planes, with the rate at which we travel - even if you wanted, you cannot hide from the rest of the world. And whether you like it or not, you are part of this global marketplace, and so you might as well understand it, you might as well embrace it, because even if you hide, it will find you.