Beppe Grillo Quotes

People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not going to change the way we think, and it's not going to change the way we feel.

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

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

It is the Internet that changes: the Internet is not just a language; it modifies relationships, the way we look at the world.

The Internet removed geography as a significant obstacle that formerly prevented out-of-the-way places from being active players in the New Economy.

I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.

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

In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.

In theory, the Internet should bring us all closer together and slowly eliminate our differences.

Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace.

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.

In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded knowledge. The Internet gives us access, not just to knowledge, but to the intelligence contained in people's crania, access to the intelligence of people on a global basis.

It seems there is no area in our culture that is not touched, changed, even swallowed by the Internet. It's both medium and message, mass and personal, social and solitary.

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

What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.

I am still cautiously hopeful about the potential of the Internet. But it seems that the greatest revolution in communication has been hijacked by commercial values.

My point is, no one can stop the Internet. No one can stop that march. It doesn't mean that it's going to be smooth, though.

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

I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.

The internet has become one of the motors of the 21st century economy, allowing all of us to reach a global audience at a click of a mouse and creating hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of jobs.

The Internet knows no national borders.

The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we're moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.

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