Michael K. Powell Quotes

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.

I think that Britain's broadband vision needs to be about more people using broadband rather than macho claims about the speed of the technology.

Increased access to broadband expands our ability to do commerce and will help bring our farmers' operations into the 21st century.

Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.

Broadband gives small businesses the opportunity to broaden their customer base and reduce their overheads through e-commerce platforms.

The more broadband we can get globally, the better. It's better for the world; it's better for our advertisers; it's better for Google.

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.

And the more broadband we can get globally, the better. It's better for the world; it's better for our advertisers; it's better for Google.

From day one, the Internet was a public square, and the providers merely connected everyone, rather than regulating who spoke with whom. That allowed the Internet to evolve into a form of basic infrastructure, used by over a billion people today.

A country’s Internet infrastructure, just like it’s physical infrastructure, is essential to its economic competition and growth.

To create a truly digital Europe will require a foundation of high-speed, high-quality broadband, both wired and wireless.

By exciting citizens about the new digital opportunity, breaking down silos of competing groups to form a truly open innovation ecosystem and shifting day-to-day resources to focus on big long-term investments for the future, countries can ensure that they break through and bridge the digital gap.

As Chair of the Broadband and Technology Task Force, I will strive to ensure that legislative and regulatory policy making on these rapidly evolving services takes fully into account the needs of the Latino community.

I think the Internet is a key driver of opening up opportunities, which impacts many things, including development - I will repeat that I am not a fan of looking at technology or the Internet in Africa through the lens of development - we love the Internet for sake of the Internet.

The Internet is the number one reason people buy PCs, and the number one use of PCs is on the Internet from our customer base.

What India is doing in promoting technology and broadband access and PCs for the population is an important market for us.

E-Commerce is happening the way all the hype said it would. Internet deployment is happening. Broadband is happening. Everything we ever said about the Internet is happening. And it is very, very early. We can't even glimpse it's potential in changing the way people work and live.

Lands' End has undergone three major changes over the past couple of decades. The first was the introduction of an 800 number, in 1978; the second was express delivery, in 1994; and the third was the introduction of a Web site, in 1995. The first two innovations cut the average transaction time-the time between the moment of ordering and the moment the goods are received-from three weeks to four days. The third innovation has cut the transaction time from four days to, well, four days.

We're in an inflection point where it's cheaper to learn to read on a tablet computer than it is to learn to read on paper. And that being the case, it's only a matter of time before every 6-year-old kid has a tablet computer, and we know for a fact, 3- to 4-year-old kids are using tablets and iPads, and 75 and 80 year olds are using them.

The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.

As people continue to do more and buy more over the Internet, continue to meet people over the Internet, connection speeds are going to get faster, and the Internet is just going to become an even more integral part of people's lives.

We all know how the Internet has changed the lives of consumers: it's changed how we communicate, how we shop, how we meet people. It's changed things for businesses too.

The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.

Our goal in life ought to be to extend this medium [the Internet] so that it is available to every man, woman and child in the country.