Studs Terkel Quotes

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don't pretend that if Facebook didn't exist, that this wouldn't even be possible. Of course, it would have.

In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.

I think the Internet is a huge positive.

I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.

The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

Yeah, look, I think what we have with the social media and the digital media, and all the telecommunications we have today is a big megaphone, amplification.

Geographic boundaries really begin to disappear with the Internet.

Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.

The Internet exposes a diversity of opinion, experience, and taste we'd been led to believe didn't exist. If you were unusual in 1950 or 1980 - and everyone is unusual in one way or another - you were an isolated anomaly. Now you're a Web ring, a Yahoo category.

Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world.

We do live in this age of new media.

I find it amusing that I'm on the Internet now, because I've criticized it, but mainly I've criticized it on the basis of, 'What are you going to do with it?'

Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will spread, and it will change those societies in very dramatic ways.

By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

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.

I was stuck at home in bed with me and got more and more involved with the Internet. I used it to keep in contact with friends and to make sure I was up to date with everything that was going on in the world.

The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.

Today we live in a global village but we don’t have our global elders to guide and inspire us.

We’re going to use the Internet to keep up with our friends and let them know what we are doing. They’re going to use it to decide what kind of government they’re going to have.

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

I love the Internet. I love my mobile devices. I love the fact that they mean that whoever chooses to will be able to watch this talk far beyond this auditorium.

In 1998, there was no social media. People were barely on the Internet. So I had no input from fans at all. Zero.

The Internet has created so many niche audiences that when millions or even thousands of people can be on the same page it's a truly special thing.

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