Bill McKibben Quotes

There are dangers, but only dangers if people don't understand where technology is taking us.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

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.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

Ultimately, what the tech industry really cares about is ushering in the future, but it conflates technological progress with societal progress.

Technology is the future, I have seen the third industrial revolution, and we are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution.

Every time there is a major shift in technology, it's been hugely exciting and scary at the same time. I have seen some really drastic changes in technology, like shooting only film to video to digital.

Information technology has brought people much closer together than ever before, providing a democratizing and mostly stabilizing influence.

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.

The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big data.

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

I actually think the one who is underestimated in terms of impact he's had on society is Bill Gates. The reason is that with the innovation of software, he really allowed the computer revolution to take hold.

Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won't vanish, but let's face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.

Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us; that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.

As a society, we are underinvesting resources in research on the societal implications of AI technologies.

Isn't it strange that as technology advances, the quality of life frequently declines.

Technology has become our culture

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.

Technology is always ahead of the law.

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