Gary Shteyngart Quotes

People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

The Internet isn't just itself a revolution - it sometimes starts them, too.

This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about.

Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create.

The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts.

The notion of the Internet as a force of political and social revolution is not a new one. As far back as the early 1990s, in the early days of the World Wide Web, there were technologists and writers arguing forcefully that the Internet was destined to become the most important tool for cultural change in human history.

… the telephone was only a convenience permitting Americans to do more orally and with less effort than what they had been doing before.

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

The great growling engine of change - technology.

Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict.

It's true that virtually all new technologies do trigger what sociologists would call 'moral panics,' that there are a lot of people who are concerned with the possible political and social consequences, and that this has been true throughout the ages.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live.

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

Every time a new technology comes along, we feel we're about to break through to a place where we will not be able to recover. The advent of broadcast radio confused people. It delighted people, of course, but it also changed the world.

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.

It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

When we change the way we communicate, we change society.

I think the iPhone was as significant an invention as the Gutenburg press, in terms of the future of humanity.

Like it or not, the United States is a revolutionary power. Whether the government is trying to overthrow foreign dictators is almost irrelevant. American society is about the most revolutionary force on the planet. The Internet is more subversive than the CIA in its prime. The dynamism of American Society is constantly creating new businesses, new technologies, new ideas and new social models. These innovations travel, and they make trouble when they do.

Advances in technology and the Internet have dramatically changed the way we communicate, live, and work.

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