Dmitri Alperovitch Quotes

There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

The Internet has heralded a revolution in our society. It has transformed the way we do business, entertain, communicate, and travel. In many ways, the change has been positive. The web has brought new freedoms, spurred economic growth, and extended the boundaries of knowledge.

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

The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are - in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city - you can get high speed broadband access.

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 world has changed. People have amazing access to whatever they want, whenever they want it.

People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live.

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

The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree.

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.

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.

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

This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.

I happen to be one of the people who believe that the Internet is a force of good, and I'm very optimistic about it.

The Internet is the dynamic engine that is driving our economy today and we must keep that open.

A world in which we can fully experience the benefits that a connected society brings remains out of reach. Vested interests all too often feel threatened by the modern world, and they are holding Scotland back. We want to change that.

The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.

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

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

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

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

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

The explosion in access to mobile phones and digital services means that people everywhere are contributing vast amounts of information to the global knowledge warehouse. Moreover, they are doing so for free, just by communicating, buying and selling goods and going about their daily lives.