Kevin Mitnick Quotes

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

The important thing to remember with the Internet is that there are large companies that have an interest in controlling how information flows in it. They're very effective at lobbying Congress, and that pattern has locked down other communication media in the past. And it will happen again unless we do something about it.

The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict Internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done.

There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.

We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.

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

I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'

As the world grows and technology grows, it's getting harder to communicate and for kids to socialize.

All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.

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.

Broadband access is the great equalizer, leveling the playing field so that every willing and able person, no matter their station in life, has access to the information and tools necessary to achieve the American Dream.

Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.

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

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.

This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.

The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.

I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone's got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven't.

I think the iPhone was as significant an invention as the Gutenburg press, in terms of the future of humanity.

It's bizarre to have both a super-connected and disconnected world. Like, you can use Twitter in the most narcissistic way. Do people really need to know that I'm drinking a latte right now? It's so indulgent.

We must close the digital divide.

A world in which we can fully experience the benefits that a connected society brings remains out of reach. Vested interests all too often feel threatened by the modern world, and they are holding Scotland back. We want to change that.

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.

Washington faces a simple choice: allow the Internet to remain as an engine of innovation, a platform for speech in even the harshest tyrannies, and a unified connection for people across the globe—or cede control of the Internet to service providers motivated by their parochial interests.