George Gilder Quotes

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

The most important thing is to make the technology inclusive - make the world change. Next, pay attention to those people who are 30 years old, because those are the internet generation. They will change the world; they are the builders of the world.

The VC industry has benefited greatly from technology and the Internet, so I see how the VC industry is going to get disintermediated, decentralized, disrupted, so I can sit around and wait for someone to disrupt ourselves, or we can choose to disrupt or cannibalize ourselves.

I think technology and smartphones created a huge paradigm shift that we can't fully comprehend, and I think in a lot of ways things are changing faster than we can really process.

What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.

The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, "It's the biggest thing since Gutenberg," and then someone else said "No, it's the biggest thing since the invention of writing."

To me technology used wisely is a catalyst to magically transforming the way we live.

The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action.

The masters of the new technologies cannot master the power of politics, even if they were right to challenge the current deep dysfunction of the U. S. Political system.

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

This is the age of disruption.

I think technology can change every country regardless of political party.

I think the Internet is a huge positive.

With the appearance of communications networks and interconnected computers, we got the world wide web, and it changed the lives of most people, I think.

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

We have something very powerful in our hands with the Internet, and we still don't really understand fully its power.

Do I think technology is bad? No. I think it's wonderful that the world is so connected now. But I think, as a result, childhood ends a little earlier.

Without question, intelligent technologies will continue to disrupt the world as we know it. There will be profound implications, both positive and negative.

The power of change that mobile technology unleashes is extraordinary.

Every time there is a major shift in technology, it's been hugely exciting and scary at the same time. I have seen some really drastic changes in technology, like shooting only film to video to digital.

At its best, technology can empower people in extraordinary ways.