Robyn Quotes

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.

All forms of contact are good: letters, parcels, e-mails - I've been trying to get a Webcam for my computer, but I'm such a Luddite.

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.

We are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are completely impractical as a method of communication when you could just send a text.

Four years ago nobody but nuclear physicists had ever heard of the Internet. Today even my cat, Socks, has his own web page. I'm amazed at that. I meet kids all the time, who have been talking to my cat on the Internet.

I find the Internet to be the most wonderful thing there is. It connects people. Everyone can have input.

We didn't even have email when I was in college.

My generation was born to work with social media - it's a natural part of our communication with the world.

Because of the internet, satellite TV, and the digital world, you can stay in touch, you can learn about other people from a young age.

I'm very aware that when my friends and I sit around over dinner these days, the conversation invariably turns to how crass the world has become. Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever.

Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age's vaunted 'communications industry' had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening to death and simultaneously boring to extinction themselves and each other.

I think there's been a gigantic shift in the way we talk to each other, and the way that we communicate with each other. So as a filmmaker, the stuff's always been really interesting to me, and I sort of considered a lot of my films horror films, the ones that were relationship dramas, because I feel like it was very easy to look at modern communication and the Internet and cell phones and all that stuff as horror movies, basically.

It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer.

I think the Internet has changed the world.

The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.

In theory, the Internet should bring us all closer together and slowly eliminate our differences.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

The Internet is a whole new world opening up.

People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

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

While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.

The Internet is this whole new world that allows everyone to communicate and exchange information and be a perfect marketplace and just accelerate everybody's lives. So, for me, the Internet was the greatest invention of mankind so far.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.