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No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming.

I think technology and smartphones created a huge paradigm shift that we can't fully comprehend, and I think in a lot of ways things are changing faster than we can really process.

People who bet against the Internet, who think that somehow this change is just a generational shift, miss that it is a fundamental reorganizing of the power of the end user. The Internet brings tremendous tools to the end user, and that end user is going to use them.

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.

The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.

Technology is now part of the social fabric; it is what is causing dislocation. It is the cause of fear amongst all of us.

Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

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.

Everyone knows that the broadband era will breed a new generation of online services, but this is only half of the story. Like any innovation, broadband will inflict major changes on its environment. It will destroy, once and for all, the egalitarian vision of the Internet.

History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.

Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

The investment we're all looking for is actually saving labor... Look at what the internet is doing to retail.

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did.

Online is a revolution. The Internet is a revolution. And we should be revolutionary in the content that we put on it rather than derivative.

This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. This revolution has produced the most powerful and diverse spur to innovation of any in modern times.

The force of microelectronics will blow apart all of the monopolies, hierarchies, pyramids and power grids of established industrial society.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

Just don’t bet against the Internet.