Elvis Costello Quotes

The Internet isn't just itself a revolution - it sometimes starts them, too.

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

Advances in technology and the Internet have dramatically changed the way we communicate, live, and work.

The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box.

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.

When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. Facebook didn't exist; Twitter was a sound; the cloud was in the sky; 4G was a parking place; LinkedIn was a prison; applications were what you sent to college; and Skype, for most people, was a typo.

The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

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.

This digital world is completely fascinating to me.

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

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.

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

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

The Internet never ceases to impress me.

This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It's not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways.

I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it's kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.

The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at - indeed, great at.

Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.

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.

The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.

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.

I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation.

The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.