James H. Clark Quotes

The Internet is a testament to a connected system that works - it's a global network where any computer can reach another, and easily transfer information across.

For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.

The basic technical protocols that have enabled the Internet to work in such a globally interconnected way are developed and shared openly by a community of engineers.

The Internet has become the phenomenon of the new century. It has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America. It stands ready to serve every facet, every faction. It creates neighbors where once we were foreigners. It carries our individual voices to new communities formed through the magic of electronics. The electronic village has been born, and the village voice, via the internet is being heard.

Well, the United States will continue to be a world leader in wireless communications.

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.

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.

When I helped to develop the open standards that computers use to communicate with one another across the Net, I hoped for but could not predict how it would blossom and how much human ingenuity it would unleash.

It's nice to be able to communicate digitally with people around the world.

The Internet is a container, not a substance.

In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.

The interesting thing about the Internet is that it has created a kind of alternative circle of friends for people.

Every day at Skype, I am able to connect with employees from around the world and engage with them on a level that just is not possible through a conference call or email.

Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.

'Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the Internet, for example, and I'm not entirely sure it's such a useful term, but I think that's what most people mean by it.

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.

I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.

With my wife Camille's help, I took to social networking. I'm working with the computers.

Through historical accident, we've ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any time.

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.

The Internet enables us to share the ideas we have without having to create another hierarchy.

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.

The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together.

The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.