Kanye West Quotes

The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation.

Technology's become the great prism for what's going on in the world.

It takes more than a few generations to change a human nation. Those who are intent to bring (change) will do so.

The washing machine changed the world more than the Internet.

Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true.

Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around communication channels. Two hundred years ago it was mostly rivers. It was sea-lanes and mountain passes. The Internet is another form of communication and commerce. And society organizes around the channels.

This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality.

I think we live in a period of profound transformation. Very similar to when we had a transition from agricultural societies to industrial societies.

We are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet.

Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

Changing the world doesn't happen all at once. It isn't a big bang. It's an evolution, the sum of a billion tiny sparks. And some of those sparks will have to come from you.

We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is now seen as it was seen a hundred years ago. Nothing is left of the world view of one hundred years ago.

I'm not so sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said, "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward for civilization-that is, spiritual civilization ... But automobiles have come, and they bring a greater change in our life than most of us expect. They are here, and almost all outward things are going to be different because of what they bring. They are going to alter war, and they are going to alter peace.

You can't expect everything to happen all at once when it's been such a male-dominated world for so long.

I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.

I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age

The years after 2000 will be a monumental change in the way life is lived here. It will be harder and harder to relate to our children. I don't know what it's going to be. I don't plan to be around in the year 2000. I'll be taken away by the Sufi God.

We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.

What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet.

When we generate utopian visions and hope to make them happen soon – when we elect Barack Obama and expect all our problems to be solved, and solved quickly, by his presidency – the outcome is both predictable and tragic. That is not the way to engage social change in a democracy. And it is not the way to help democracy itself survive and thrive. Democracy is a non-stop experiment. Each generation must help sustain it, which means being in it day-by-day for the long haul.

In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world

Liberty is a slow fruit.

Technology evolves faster than people do, faster than biology does.