Maria Bamford Quotes

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.

Before the Internet, we were in a different sort of dark age. We had to wait to hear news on TV at night or in print the next day. We had to go to record stores to find new music. Cocktail party debates couldn't be settled on the spot.

That's the power of the Internet: you can literally find everything.

The Internet was crucial for our success. It is a great thing. It is a big democracy because people can choose what they like.

More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.

We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with that news story being great and grand and something that elevates society instead of diminishes it.

The Internet is this whole new world that allows everyone to communicate and exchange information and be a perfect marketplace and just accelerate everybody's lives. So, for me, the Internet was the greatest invention of mankind so far.

I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents.

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV.

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

We're in a 21st century, transparent and connected world.

Because we know so much more, immediately, about what’s going on all over the world, there is less room to hide.

The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.

We have recently moved into an era when... everybody can share an inconceivably enormous amount of information just by stroking a few keys on a terminal.

The Internet is one of the most revolutionary technologies the world has ever known. It has given us an entire universe of information in our pockets.

The Internet is a clear example of how our lives have changed in ways we couldn't have imagined: a distributed information source, which is invisible to everyone, where you can access anything, and it's distributed throughout the whole world. Basically, communication is instantaneous.

There's so much information accessible to everyone now because the Internet is so powerful; social media is so powerful.

'Free' is the museum show of our times, presaging the whole Wikileaks dustup, and it shows shifting power dynamics and a glimpse of the human in a world of flowing data.

Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people.

The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph is astronomical. Everything since then has been small increments, including the internet. So you don't have to wait for a letter to get to England in six weeks, you have almost instant communication. That was an enormous shift.

[The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It's like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There's a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn't really matter

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

I wasn't weaned on the web nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized world where news and information were tightly controlled by a few editors, who deemed to tell us what we could and should know. My two young daughters, on the other hand, will be digital natives.