Jane Haddam Quotes

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

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

With a 100-year perspective, the real value of the personal computer is not spreadsheets, word processors or even desktop publishing. It's the Web.

The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation.

Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.

We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.

Four years ago nobody but nuclear physicists had ever heard of the Internet. Today even my cat, Socks, has his own web page. I'm amazed at that. I meet kids all the time, who have been talking to my cat on the Internet.

The Internet is one of the biggest advances ever in our world.

I love the Internet. I love my mobile devices. I love the fact that they mean that whoever chooses to will be able to watch this talk far beyond this auditorium.

The Internet, arguably the fastest world-changing invention since the Gutenberg printing press, has become the core of our social and business lives.

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.

With the appearance of communications networks and interconnected computers, we got the world wide web, and it changed the lives of most people, I think.

This Network Generation have grown up in a connected world. With Skype, Facebook, Twitter and the Internet, the world is at their fingertips via their smart phone. They find the idea of watching TV programmes at a time to suit the broadcaster quaint and old-fashioned.

Everything is so tech now; everyone is so connected that way.

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.

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.

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.

With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.

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

My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

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

I don't know why, but I'm continually amazed to think that two and a half billion of us around the world are connected to each other through the Internet and that at any point in time more than 30 percent of the world's population can go online to learn, to create and to share.

The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.