Garry Kasparov Quotes

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

Living in the age of information and technology, everything gets out so easy and so, so quickly.

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.

Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.

We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.

Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around.

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

The Internet has changed everything. We expect to know everything instantly. If you don't understand digital communication, you're at a disadvantage.

For sure, the American people have access to more information now than any other people who have ever lived on earth. And I think we do a pretty good job of sorting out what's important.

Thanks to our modern era, facts are incredibly easy to come by. A few web searches for your subject matter, and you have all the information you could dream of.

Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.

I don't know how to write a novel in the world of cellphones. I don't know how to write a novel in the world of Google, in which all factual information is available to all characters. So I have to stand on my head to contrive a plot in which the characters lose their cellphone and are separated from technology.

People are flooded with information every day, and normal guys everywhere try valiantly to stay up with all the technology. But they can't quite do it. I know how those guys feel.

We live in an age of sound bites and buzz words.

Before the Internet, we were in a different sort of dark age. We had to wait to hear news on TV at night or in print the next day. We had to go to record stores to find new music. Cocktail party debates couldn't be settled on the spot.

I wasn't weaned on the web nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized world where news and information were tightly controlled by a few editors, who deemed to tell us what we could and should know. My two young daughters, on the other hand, will be digital natives.

We have recently moved into an era when... everybody can share an inconceivably enormous amount of information just by stroking a few keys on a terminal.

We're living in this world where we have so much media all the time. We have access to imagery all the time.

I think technology and smartphones created a huge paradigm shift that we can't fully comprehend, and I think in a lot of ways things are changing faster than we can really process.

We're living in a society where there's a cacophony of noise and opinion.

Especially in the digital age, people want everything now, now, now.

There's so much information accessible to everyone now because the Internet is so powerful; social media is so powerful.

I think the American people are bombarded with information from all directions, all day long.