Eric Yuan Quotes

Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded.

I see something happening in the world, and I want to share it. It's why, during 9/11, I wrote every few minutes what I saw happening. It's why I write about meeting Steve Wozniak or Bill Gates or Larry Page.

When I was a young man in the 1970s, tech firms were scattered across the developed world. Since then, America has come to dominate tech almost totally.

I don't think I had a role model. I just was very inspired by an article which I read in Forbes magazine around the information superhighway and the Arpanet and stuff like that. To me, that intuitively made sense, and when I decided to come to the U.S., I knew exactly what I wanted to go and write about.

Greater technological connectivity makes the world wider, and the walls of isolation - thinner.

We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.

With a 100-year perspective, the real value of the personal computer is not spreadsheets, word processors or even desktop publishing. It's the Web.

I am sure innovation will blossom around the world, given that the Internet and mobile platforms enable innovators anywhere in the world to reach a global market with ease.

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.

The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.

There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless.

In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.

The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change.

Think of social media as the Internet. I can't think of anyone betting against the Internet in 2012.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

I happen to be one of the people who believe that the Internet is a force of good, and I'm very optimistic about it.

The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.

The Internet has become an integral part of everyday life precisely because it has been an open-to-all land of opportunity where entrepreneurs, thinkers and innovators are free to try, fail and then try again.

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page.

The global economy and its technologies can be hugely liberating for those in a position to take advantage of them.

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

Please, join the modern world.

The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.

The bridge to the 21st century turned out to be a toll bridge.