Reed Hastings Quotes

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970.

A communication highway without content is inconceivable.

We all know the Internet didn't explode until it became a commercial enterprise. Space communication will probably have the same characteristic.

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

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

We covered every major segment of this broadband communications world.

There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.

I think cable has been under-appreciated for its contribution to society.

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

As the world of chips and glass fibers and wireless waves goes, so goes the rest of the world

Broadband is not a luxury; it's critical infrastructure.

The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are - in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city - you can get high speed broadband access.

You have 1 billion people using the Internet with 200 million of those now using broadband internet connections, so the Internet has become a powerful network. It can carry calls.

Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace.

There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.

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

The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree.

We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity.

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

The Internet has become important on the world's stage.

The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.

It was government investment that led to the creation of the Internet.

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

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