Jaan Tallinn Quotes

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

The Internet can bring us much closer to the developed world.

Essentially, it's not that technology or cyberspace is some parallel universe that operates tangentially from the world we know; it is simply a new front in the international system.

The Internet is empowering everybody. It's empowering Democrats. It's empowering dictators. It's empowering criminals. It's empowering people who are doing really wonderful and creative things.

News and images move so easily across borders that attitudes and aspirations are no longer especially national. Cyber-weapons, no longer the exclusive province of national governments, can originate in a hacker's garage.

Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.

The Internet has become important on the world's stage.

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

We tend to look at computers and the Internet as items of nicety. In the 21st century, they will be items of necessity.

With the Internet, information is knowledge and knowledge is freedom.

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

The central political problem of our time is how to adapt our venerable democracy to the acceleration of the information age. Modern technology creates a supply of new tools for improved governance, but it also creates an urgent demand for putting these tools to use. We need better policies to obtain the benefits of innovation as quickly as possible and to manage the social problems that speedier innovation will inevitably create—from pollution to weapons of mass destruction.

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

We are now living in a completely digitalized world and a completely globalized world, so we have to find some new mechanisms and values to deal with this post-digitalized and post-globalized world.

I think technology can change every country regardless of political party.

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

The Internet creates transparency, creates a change of mentality, brings people together.

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 Chinese government learnt how to manage the Internet from Western developed countries; we have not learnt enough yet.

In theory, the Internet should bring us all closer together and slowly eliminate our differences.

I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.

The explosion in access to mobile phones and digital services means that people everywhere are contributing vast amounts of information to the global knowledge warehouse. Moreover, they are doing so for free, just by communicating, buying and selling goods and going about their daily lives.

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.