Steve Hilton Quotes

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 nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family.

The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's.

I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.

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.

This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.

Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society.

In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.

In a world being transformed by technology, good science is vital to good diplomacy.

You can't stop globalization any more than you can stop computers.

In Western Europe there are now only small countries—those that know it and those that don't know it yet.

National cultures and heritages must compete for man's attention with the mind-absorbing advances of universal science.

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.

We recognize the new order in the world, with the closer contacts which progress has wrought.

We've moved from a small world on a big planet to a big world on a small planet.

I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.

The nation is trying to catch up with a rapidly changing world.

I think of the world as geographical regions, and it excites me to think about the opportunity that Europe can have if we consider it to be the 500-million-people region that it is.

For seven years, I had a business relationship in Milan, Milano. Dealing with Italians, just, let me tell you... Are we the same? Good lord, no! That's why Europe's fun - it's fun because it's different. A political project that seeks to make it all the same - it's ghastly.

My obsession is with technology and how it can improve human life. In my view, what we have seen in the last 300 years is only a trailer.

Languages evolve; ideas blend together. In computer technology, we all stand on others' shoulders.

Being in the European Union has its advantages, and I think that is what the British are beginning to understand, what those who are tempted by the Brexit are going to reflect upon.