Paul Allen Quotes

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

The process for finding, creating, and consuming information has fundamentally changed with the advent of the web and the rise of blogging.

The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.

The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?

Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.

Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

Particularly since the computerization of the world, the impact of media has grown enormously. The printed books and the printed media have become less important. Why should somebody read Laozi or Confucius if he can Google?

When I was born, the Internet was barely two years old. It was the preserve of academics, used to connect dozens rather than billions of users. There weren't many who predicted it would transform our world.

It is very unlikely that the computer will displace the books, except in areas where we need information speedily.

It would be ridiculous to ignore the speed and possibilities of the digital landscape.

Information technology and the Internet are rapidly transforming almost every aspect of our lives - some for better, some for worse.

We have something very powerful in our hands with the Internet, and we still don't really understand fully its power.

Now there is tons of information available online. 90% of students rarely look at magazines in their intended format because they're looking at them on a computer screen. They don't understand the layout, so when they come to putting their own portfolios together, they have no spatial awareness.

We're living in this world where we have so much media all the time. We have access to imagery all the time.

The first conversation I ever had about the Internet was in 1993 with Robert Wright, who was then a colleague at the 'New Republic.'

No longer are technology and cyber issues confined to tech geeks in some backroom. In the digital age, IT issues are front and center. They are central to what government does and how it does it.

I was always a computer kid, and I grew up with the Internet and always found it fascinating.

In the digital world of today, one can say almost nothing is local.

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

What teens share online is dwarfed by what they consume. Pre-Internet, you had to hoof it to the grocery store to find a magazine with celebrity bodies - or at least filch your mother's copy from the bathroom. Now the pictures are as endless as they are available.

The digital world is one that has sort of a unique characteristic, where it's a place in which it's very easy for the value of content to fall.

There's so much information accessible to everyone now because the Internet is so powerful; social media is so powerful.

If you're talking about a world in which everybody is connected by computers 24 hours a day, that exists right now.

Everyone is using the Internet for almost everything - trailers, ads, movies, and short films. This is the only thing that will reach everybody in the world.