Jay Samit Quotes

When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. Facebook didn't exist; Twitter was a sound; the cloud was in the sky; 4G was a parking place; LinkedIn was a prison; applications were what you sent to college; and Skype, for most people, was a typo.

The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.

Advances in technology and the Internet have dramatically changed the way we communicate, live, and work.

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.

I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation.

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.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use in this world.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

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 understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.

The rise of Twitter defined 2011. Once every 5-7 years, a company emerges that changes not just the technology industry, but the world... after what some viewed as a rocky start, in 2011 Twitter broke through into the elite group of companies that profoundly shape our world.

Ordinary Chinese are also getting unprecedented access to information. More than half a billion Chinese now use the Internet.

The demographic of young people... in each hand is a phone, more powerful than a computer. It's a doorway to the digital nation, to education.

The Internet isn't just itself a revolution - it sometimes starts them, too.

With the appearance of communications networks and interconnected computers, we got the world wide web, and it changed the lives of most people, I think.

People said, 'MySpace is going to rule and dominate all Internet; all young people will live on MySpace.' Well, along comes Facebook. And, obviously, all the innovation that Apple is doing.

Now AOL is the grandma of online Web services. I mean, we don't need it anymore.

The launch of free Wi-Fi service is a step forward to smart cities to bring revolutionary change in the lives of the masses and to bridge the digital divide.

I remember being given a demo of the 'World Wide Web' at Peter Gabriel's studio in the early 90s, and I had zero comprehension that I was staring into the future. I was just happy with my pager and teletext on the TV.

Our quest for a Digital India is all encompassing. It is going to touch your lives in several ways, making it easier.

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.

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

The Internet is amazing.