Thomas Friedman Quotes

The start of 2016 offers great promise as the world awakens to the power of connectivity and increasing digitization. The new Digital Age is upon us, and it is unlike anything we have experienced before.

I believe, 50 years from now, when you write history, one technology that would have changed human civilization is going to be the mobile Internet.

The world is being re-shaped by the convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data, community and other powerful forces. The combination of these technologies unlocks an incredible opportunity to connect everything together in a new way and is dramatically transforming the way we live and work.

What amplifies the transformational power ahead is the confluence of two major technological currents today: the universal access to mobile computing and the pervasive use of social networks.

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

The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global economic competitiveness going forward.

A key feature of the digital age is that technology changes incessantly to sate user demands

Just as we have what used to be supercomputers in our pockets, our homes now require the telecommunications infrastructure of a small city.

The coming changes in technology will be as profound as the creation of the Internet.

Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector.

I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really.

I went from rotary phone to Twitter. And was appalled at the notion.

The widespread adoption of broadband and the continued advances in personal computing technology are finally making it possible for the collective creation of an online world on a realistic scale.

The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big data.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. Facebook didn't exist; Twitter was a sound; the cloud was in the sky; 4G was a parking place; LinkedIn was a prison; applications were what you sent to college; and Skype, for most people, was a typo.

In 2004, the iPod was a novelty, and tablet computers were a dream. Now we take for granted that we can see whatever we want whenever and wherever we want to see it, be it 'Grand Illusion' or 'Duck Dynasty.'

I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.

As humanity goes online, it's becoming an extremely advanced, large-scale processing unit.

If you look at the major industries of the future, IT and mobile are way up there.

Millennials, and the generations that follow, are shaping technology. This generation has grown up with computing in the palm of their hands. They are more socially and globally connected through mobile Internet devices than any prior generation. And they don't question; they just learn.

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

I spent my whole career in the technology business, and I was convinced of the importance, at a grand scale, of the development of global connectivity.

We are seeing the beginning of things. Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second.

In this new world, with smartphones and tablets and cloud computing, things are moving around fast.