Alice Roberts Quotes

More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.

Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need.

The world is really run by the Web. There's so much information out there that you can click and keep going down the rabbit hole finding stuff.

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.

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

That's the power of the Internet: you can literally find everything.

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

There's nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere.

The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.

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.

The Internet is the single biggest creator of ignorance mankind has ever created, as well as the single biggest eliminator of that ignorance. It’s our ability to filter that eliminates the former and empowers the latter.

That's what's good about the digital revolution is it makes information asymmetry much harder to maintain.

The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.

The vision of the Internet as a vast digital wasteland isn't correct. Everything is awesome, and we have more stuff to read than we ever have in history.

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

The Internet is where we all go to for the first stop of information. It's not the library any more, it's the Internet and if I want to find out about Kate Russell, what do I do? I Google Kate Russell. Simple as that.

[The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It's like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There's a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn't really matter

It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we've seen with the Internet's development.

It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.

There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.

That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require.

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

In the digital age, we filter forward instead of filtering out. As a result, all that material is still available to us and to others to filter in their own ways, and to bring forward in other contexts.

The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?