Anita Borg Quotes

What Facebook stands for in the world is giving people a voice and spreading ideas and rationalism.

It's a whole new world out here. The online world is like a blackboard on which, when you write, the whole world can see - and I'm thrilled about this development. I want to make full use of it.

The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication.

I think social media is a great place to share ideas and to connect with other people.

Reading the text of my blog itself is not really the interesting part. The exciting part is how the Internet allows me to be the eyes and ears for the people sending me postings from Africa.

Anyone can use these sites - companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests.

Even with censorship, the Internet is a force for change.

I am no technophobe. I like being able to calibrate communication, depending on the situation - texting for the simple and immediate; email for business or when I want to put some lag time into the exchange; Twitter to promote something; Facebook to draw a crowd.

With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.

I love the Internet, and I love that you can say whatever you want.

If nothing else, the Internet allows people to put their ideas out there and let the world decide whether they're worth paying attention to.

I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.

Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will spread, and it will change those societies in very dramatic ways.

I believe that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact.

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

What's profound and exciting is the way young people are taking advantage of the fact that the Internet enables everyone to have a megaphone. It enables everyone to stand up and say, 'I deserve to be heard, and I demand that you listen.'

My strong belief - in being in blogging before Twitter - is that in trying to create more information out there, in trying to create the democratization of media in general, is that the more voices there are out there then the likelihood is that the truth bubbles up to the top.

When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.

For all its deranging effects, I am always grateful to Twitter for the interesting ideas it surfaces.

The beauty of the Internet is that anybody can be a broadcaster now.

Social media is my portal into the rest of the world - my periscope into the communities next to my community, into how the rest of the world thinks and feels.

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

I think there's confusion around what the point of social networks is. A lot of different companies characterized as social networks have different goals - some serve the function of business networking, some are media portals. What we're trying to do is just make it really efficient for people to communicate, get information and share information.

I think the beauty of the Internet is that it's giving a lot of people the opportunity to reach people around the world that they never would have been able to, and for people to tell their own stories where they don't see themselves reflected in mainstream media, or the media is misrepresenting the truth, right.

For me, social media is a one-way deal. It's like all the traffic goes one direction and I don't care how many people follow me, I don't care how many people like what I do, give me a thumbs up or whatever it is. I am here to share a piece of information that I've decided is relevant to our relationship as musician and audience member.