J. C. R. Licklider Quotes

The Internet is literally a network of networks.

The Internet wasn't useful until some basic infrastructure was built.

Can you explain what Internet is?

In cyberspace things are built out of light.

My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development.

Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.

I'm not personally connected to the Internet, although nearly everyone that I know is, and many of them have a great time and no problems with it. And on the surface you can see that the Internet could go an awful long way to educating, enlightening, informing and connecting the world.

A communication highway without content is inconceivable.

For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.

The Internet is an amazing development.

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.

The most important book on the Internet is, essentially, the Internet.

We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.

We have radio and TV in every single part of Mexico. And in every one of the 185,000 schools of Mexico there is an electronic blackboard connected to the Internet—every school.

With the Internet, you hear voices that you never knew were out there.

The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.

The Internet is amazing.

The Internet, as a platform, I think is really fantastic.

Galactic plankton is undoubtedly out there, but it's statistically highly likely there's also another intelligent civilisation out there somewhere. Unfortunately, the distances and time differences are so great, communication might remain impossible.

What I tell business leaders is you're in the space industry - you just don't know it yet. Every industry will be impacted by space. The internet would not exist without space-based communication.

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

Cloud computing is a fact of life.

Ironically the very energy, the very basis of how we know what we know, has been reliant on having an energy source [necessary] to build rockets to go to the moon and Mars, to support airplanes that fly, and satellites to give us our communication.

Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around communication channels. Two hundred years ago it was mostly rivers. It was sea-lanes and mountain passes. The Internet is another form of communication and commerce. And society organizes around the channels.

I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.