George Dyson Quotes

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.

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.

Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at me like I'm crazy because every young person we know in the world is never without media, ever.

By the 2010s, almost everybody in the developed world, it seemed, had a powerful digital device that took little or no special skills or training to use.

It is the Internet that changes: the Internet is not just a language; it modifies relationships, the way we look at the world.

The Internet removed geography as a significant obstacle that formerly prevented out-of-the-way places from being active players in the New Economy.

The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet.

I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

In the early '90s, well under 5 percent of the global population was online.

Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet.

I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture.

The Internet is this whole new world that allows everyone to communicate and exchange information and be a perfect marketplace and just accelerate everybody's lives. So, for me, the Internet was the greatest invention of mankind so far.

The more broadband we can get globally, the better. It's better for the world; it's better for our advertisers; it's better for Google.

We like to think of the Internet as a border-busting technology.

It seems there is no area in our culture that is not touched, changed, even swallowed by the Internet. It's both medium and message, mass and personal, social and solitary.

It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.

So long as confusion reigns, there will be no successful global Internet agenda, only contradiction.

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.

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.

We do live in this age of new media.

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

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

I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.