Paul E. Jacobs Quotes

As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.

The most dramatic effect of digital libraries will not be on us, the well-booked, but on the billions of people worldwide who are underserved by ordinary paper books.

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.

The Internet has been so good to me; I see its potential to help other people.

The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.

The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts.

You will not be able to meet the Millennium Development goals in health without e-health, in education without e-education, and government services will not be able to be provided without e-government services.

To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.

We like to think of the Internet as a border-busting technology.

Given that my title at Google is Chief Internet Evangelist, I feel like there is this great challenge before me because we have three billion users, and there are seven billion people in the world.

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

I believe mobile technology has a much broader role to play. It could solve some of the biggest problems on earth.

If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.

In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.

Technology can be a great equalizer when it comes to health care, education - to the point where rich, poor, middle class can all get the same benefits.

The mobile industry changed Africa.

Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.

Broadband access is the great equalizer, leveling the playing field so that every willing and able person, no matter their station in life, has access to the information and tools necessary to achieve the American Dream.

I had had a lot of experience in bringing the Internet to Australia, and I saw that knowledge in the hands of people achieves reform.

The Internet has empowered us. It has empowered you, it has empowered me, and it has empowered some other guys as well.

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

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.

We tend to look at computers and the Internet as items of nicety. In the 21st century, they will be items of necessity.