Marvin Ammori Quotes

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.

The notion of the Internet as a force of political and social revolution is not a new one. As far back as the early 1990s, in the early days of the World Wide Web, there were technologists and writers arguing forcefully that the Internet was destined to become the most important tool for cultural change in human history.

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

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.

Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

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

In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.

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

I don't know if anybody thought about how much impact the iPhone could have on society.

I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

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

People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.

I've been fortunate to have had the opportunity to be at the forefront of the digital media revolution.

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.

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

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.

Perhaps the most encouraging trend is that, through technology, people are realizing how much agency they actually have. Technology has revolutionized the way we eat, live, communicate, socialize, learn, and do. We see enormous potential to create lasting, positive change in the way the world works by doing what we are doing.

We didn't know the importance of home computers before the Internet. We had them mostly for fun, then the Internet came along and was enabled by all the PCs out there.

The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change.

Please, join the modern world.

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

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

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

I believe, 50 years from now, when you write history, one technology that would have changed human civilization is going to be the mobile Internet.