Jon Meacham Quotes

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

The first conversation I ever had about the Internet was in 1993 with Robert Wright, who was then a colleague at the 'New Republic.'

The Internet has become important on the world's stage.

When I was born, the Internet was barely two years old. It was the preserve of academics, used to connect dozens rather than billions of users. There weren't many who predicted it would transform our world.

The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global economic competitiveness going forward.

The Cube is approximately - it's around the same age as the Internet, and in that time, we had no personal computers yet.

The greatest miracle of the Internet is that it exists - the second greatest is that it persists.

I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really.

You have 1 billion people using the Internet with 200 million of those now using broadband internet connections, so the Internet has become a powerful network. It can carry calls.

Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes.

There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.

The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.

The history of the Internet is not, as some people have tried to make it, a libertarian just-so story. It is a messy tale in which the government played a significant role. That role was, however, far more subtle than the plans of industrial policy gurus or techno-boosting politicians.

Technology just means information technology.

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

Tim Berners-Lee, the 44-year-old English physicist who created the World Wide Web, is precisely the kind of hero that a relatively simple invention with profound social and economic consequences should lay claim to. He is not just creative but democratic, diplomatic, polite and generous with credit and praise.

When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. Facebook didn't exist; Twitter was a sound; the cloud was in the sky; 4G was a parking place; LinkedIn was a prison; applications were what you sent to college; and Skype, for most people, was a typo.

The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.

We need to get smarter about hardware and software innovation in order to get the most value from the emerging Internet of Things.

I spent my whole career in the technology business, and I was convinced of the importance, at a grand scale, of the development of global connectivity.

This digital world is completely fascinating to me.

By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

The Internet was invented in America but has found its largest number of users in China.