Tony Bates Quotes

We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback.

The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.

The Internet enables us to share the ideas we have without having to create another hierarchy.

With Skype video calling, teachers can provide their students with first-hand knowledge from experts around the world and with other classes who are studying the same subject halfway across the world.

I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.

If you think about Cisco's offerings like TelePresence, where it's an immersive way to communicate for businesses to connect and have conversations in a real-time immersive mode, how that will change health care, how that'll change retail business, how that'll change actually travel. There's lots of changes that we will see going forward.

The Internet links me to friends and family around the world. Skype rocks!

The Internet makes it possible for everyone to collaborate.

I think in general the Zoom interviews are harder because of the slight delay and then trying to jump in and ask questions can be more difficult.

In theoretical physics, one can, in principle, work from anyplace as long as one has a computer and Internet connection. So I do not find any disadvantage of being in Allahabad.

Believe it or not, joining a video conference call from home doesn't always have to make you feel like an idiot.

In tech-land, no one cares what kind of car you drive, and frankly, they're not going to find out anyway. You're not going to go to lunch together, because you're going to be sitting in your cube with a brown bag eating lunch.

I think the one thing about the Zoom calls is unlike being in a room with people where you can look away or drift off, I feel like with Zoom, everyone's face is just dead center, head on, there is no drifting. It takes a lot of energy from me.

The Internet promises to open new channels for worker-firm communications. What are the consequences of this opening?

I feel like Zoom is not a part of Zoom anymore. Zoom belongs to the world now.

I think because Skype is becoming so much more prevalent, and you're looking at someone else on a screen, it's going to work its way into movies and TV shows in all different ways, which I think is really cool.

In the past, a writer had to go outside and get to know others before learning about their work, but the Internet has made humanity more accessible for misanthropes like me. I read blogs, tweets, Facebook posts and Reddit threads where people detail their jobs.

The Internet is just a chance to do something. Nowhere else can you go, 'I have an idea, I can write this idea, and I can execute this idea.'

We have to come together, worldwide, and 'think.' We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

I love text, I love email, I love Skype; I think it's amazing.

Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?

The Internet has become the phenomenon of the new century. It has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America. It stands ready to serve every facet, every faction. It creates neighbors where once we were foreigners. It carries our individual voices to new communities formed through the magic of electronics. The electronic village has been born, and the village voice, via the internet is being heard.

Our ability to connect as a nation with other nations around the world is enhanced dramatically by the Internet.

That's the beauty of the Internet is that we're no longer tied to our communities by physical connections.