Jon Postel Quotes

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

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

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

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

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.

The Internet is an amazing development.

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.

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page.

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.

Here, all of a sudden, we have a revolution in - in communication, and it is - it is really, truly big. Internet is as big as the introduction of fire to the human race, or the introduction of electricity into our lives.

Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was.

Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.

I'm one of those people that thinks the Internet is amazing, and I can't believe it exists.

The Internet is a container, not a substance.

In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded knowledge. The Internet gives us access, not just to knowledge, but to the intelligence contained in people's crania, access to the intelligence of people on a global basis.

I think we built the right future. If it's a choice between the flying car or the Internet, tablets and smartphones, I'll take what we've got.

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

I wouldn't be anywhere without the Internet.

The world is really run by the Web. There's so much information out there that you can click and keep going down the rabbit hole finding stuff.

Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.

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

We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.