Elif Safak Quotes

Technology has a lot to do with how the world is developing at the moment because there are very raw and pure and primal emotions that people are communicating to each other over the Internet.

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

As the world of chips and glass fibers and wireless waves goes, so goes the rest of the world

Our computers have become windows through which we can gaze upon a world that is virtually without horizons or boundaries.

There's a lot of opportunity on the web that you couldn't imagine some years ago. People are experimenting at a fast rate.

So much of the world is digital.

The web is not going to change the world, certainly not in the next 10 years. It's going to augment the world. And once you're in this web-augmented space, you're going to see that democratization takes place.

We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.

Information technology has brought people much closer together than ever before, providing a democratizing and mostly stabilizing influence.

The globe is shrinking, the information age is bringing a lot of changes. People are anxious about their future and their children's futures.

You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.

The Internet helps break down so many barriers. People start to see what's happening around the world, they feel more of a oneness and they get information all at the same time, so that helps.

There are people in Iran who have the same aspirations as people all around the world for a better life.

The digital and physical worlds are starting to come together more seamlessly - it's only the tip of the iceberg in terms of what's coming.

Your mission statement says Galer Street is based on global "connectitude." (You people don't just think outside the box, you think outside the dictionary!)

As more and more people awaken to the threats against our basic rights online, we must start a debate - everywhere - about the web we want.

I'm more pro-technology than people probably realize.

When I was starting out there was no Internet, there wasn't this sense that you could be connected to other writers around the world. And that created a kind of innocence, or parochial quality, even in NYC.

Changes that used to take place in 50 years now happen in a handful of years . . . or even months. And how we deal with that changing technology explains almost everything.

Being human in the digital world is about building a digital world for humans.

Our civilization is experiencing unprecedented changes across many realms, largely due to the rapid advancement of information technology. The ability to code and understand the power of computing is crucial to success in today's hyper-connected world.

If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.

Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.

The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.