Eric Walters Quotes

Young people are better educated. They grew up in a society which is well connected, well informed. They are able to communicate to one another, to know what is happening.

The Internet helps break down so many barriers. People start to see what's happening around the world, they feel more of a oneness and they get information all at the same time, so that helps.

My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it's accessed by the world.

We think that there is this terrible idea that the kids are digital natives... and they know what they're doing, but all the evidence says that they're hanging around going, 'Where are you, I'm here, can I post my picture?' They're not actually writing wikis; they're not actually listening to great poets live.

I got 'The Red White and Blue' out of journalism. It puts you in touch with the world.

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV.

I speak to kids 16, 17 years old, they haven't read a newspaper. They haven't physically handled a newspaper. They don't even look at the headlines on a subway. These kids are on the Internet and the level of news that they're getting is not the quality of 'The New York Times' or 'The Wall Street Journal.' It's way deficient, and they don't care.

The interesting thing about cybercrime and the whole cyber world is that many of the people that are most proficient in it are young people, really young people.

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn't really give them the idea of the world. Or they don't read or travel. They have no idea that America is part of the world and not the world itself.

I think social media can be harmful and helpful at the same time. I started in 2003 ... back then, we didn't have the connection to the rest of the world that we have now. The fact that we can make bad behavior more public, it makes us more aware.

I felt bad for that world that we have given a generation of kids.

These kids [of the current generation] have no fear of technology ... sort of like I have no fear of a refrigerator.

You can have a lot of New York and still see what's going on in the rest of the world, I think - like in China.

Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music... Whew... you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.

The world today is the same as it always was but people know more about what's going on in the world than they used to.

A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.

I will make Maggie safe. If the world burns because of that then so be it. Me and the kid will roast some marshmallows.

If we focused on using the opportunities we have, which are very great by any standard - health, longevity, comfort and privacy, endless resources of culture and information - we would not just navigate this world, we would leave a good inheritance to succeeding generations.

That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.

We all know about the big world conflicts: Israel and Palestine, Zimbabwe, and so on. But there are smaller conflicts that aren't even on the world's radar screen; most of the world has no idea that Ethiopia invaded Somalia a year ago. It makes sense for the Elders to sit down with both sides and see whether leaders can come to an understanding.

The one thing I take more joy in than anything else in the world is seeing young people develop

Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.

The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.