Tom Peters Quotes

The core of what Google is about is bringing information to people.

I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.

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

We're living in a technological world. You cannot tell me we can't do a better job getting that information.

I mean the Internet is like the luckiest thing - we have everything at our fingertips right now.

Digital content and electronic networks have changed the basic environmental conditionsin which documents are created, distributed, and used.

I do believe that with more worldwide influences, the coming of the internet age and digital media, the flow of information is far greater, and people's understanding can expand more easily.

Everything is within walking distance, as long as you have time.

The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It's not a computation device, it's not a word processing or a spreadsheet device. It's a window onto the world of information.

A good government is one with many information channels, those that give real-time information.

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

Why cross and ocean when you can cross a river? Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here?

It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.

The more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own governments accountable. They can begin to think for themselves.

Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors.

We'd done a couple of road trips with my big chair, and it was such a hassle if we didn't have the van with the foldout ramp. I figured: There's got to be some option that I can use on the go. Now I can go anywhere with my friends, which is a big, life-changing thing. I can sit on it for as long as I need to.

That's what the news is: You turn on the news every night, whatever you watch, and you're expecting to see things that you didn't know happened. And that's not what it is.

The great thing about living today is that there is this thing called the Interweb, and you can just look up anything.

If you can make it easier to consume, people will consume more of it.

Technology has such an impact on libraries in the last 20 years, and the last 10 years in particular.

Anything I really want I can find online.

The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.

It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas. ... This right to receive information and ideas, regardless of their social worth, ... is fundamental to our free society.

I don't see anything wrong with a cell phone. That's great. You have a flat tire in the middle of the night; it works better than digging in your pocket for a quarter and looking for a payphone eight miles down the road.

The only power source a book needs is you. If you have to leave for a few minutes you have not lost the story. It is waiting for you when you return. You can pick up a book and resume reading at any time, after a few minutes, a few days, even a few years. A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.