Nicholas Negroponte Quotes

For me, the early 2000s stood for this vast, magical, electronic cyber realm - a time when the internet was so infinite, mysterious, and under-explored.

'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the suffix '-electro' to make things cool, because everything was electrical. 'Electro' was all over the early 20th century, and now it's gone. I think 'cyber' is sort of the same way.

The Internet is a whole new world opening up.

When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.

The Internet was crucial for our success. It is a great thing. It is a big democracy because people can choose what they like.

Having disrupted business practices, social interactions and political campaigns, 2011 will be seen as the year that the rise of the Internet first disrupted foreign relations.

Like gods, we have created a new universe called cyberspace that contains great good and ominous evil. We do not know yet if this new dimension will produce more monsters than marvels, but it is too late to go back.

News and images move so easily across borders that attitudes and aspirations are no longer especially national. Cyber-weapons, no longer the exclusive province of national governments, can originate in a hacker's garage.

We realize that if we live in a world that depends totally on CBS.com, we'd be dead.

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the 'Net - is like the wild west of the information world.

We are now living on Internet time. It's a new territory, and the cyber equivalent of the Oklahoma land rush is on.

Our computers have become windows through which we can gaze upon a world that is virtually without horizons or boundaries.

The greatest miracle of the Internet is that it exists - the second greatest is that it persists.

Essentially, it's not that technology or cyberspace is some parallel universe that operates tangentially from the world we know; it is simply a new front in the international system.

That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.

Because I'm 44, I feel kind of lucky that I lived through this period where I started my career where there was no Internet at all, and now when I finish it, there will be nothing but the Internet.

Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.

It just so happened that I had this place called YouTube where everybody in the world could do exactly what they wanted to do and it's potentially one of the most exciting times I've discovered in the history of anything ever.

The beauty of the Internet is pretty much unlimited.

Now in the digital age, in the age of social media, all of the wrestling audiences are so much more connected. I cannot stress that enough, how much more connected wresting audiences are around the world.

So much of the world is digital.

I'm fascinated by technology and how it is changing the way we live and view our humanity.

The only medium where people are truly exploring themselves and going out to experiment is the digital space.

I've always been very fascinated by technology - the Internet, social media.