Robert Cailliau Quotes

The Cube is approximately - it's around the same age as the Internet, and in that time, we had no personal computers yet.

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

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.

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.

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

When I was at MIT, they had a beta test of Mosaic, the first popular browser. I remember looking at it, and there was a weather map or something. Now, in fairness to me, there weren't any websites then. But I remember saying, 'This is stupid - what's the point?' Now, of course, it's obvious.

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.

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

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.

The government invented the Internet.

That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There's a small little industry. It broadcasted its message and everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy and actually restoring a more natural way.

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.

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.

Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will spread, and it will change those societies in very dramatic ways.

By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.

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.

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

The Internet was invented in America but has found its largest number of users in China.

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

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

We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.

The Internet has empowered us. It has empowered you, it has empowered me, and it has empowered some other guys as well.