Gail Collins Quotes

No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming.

I understand the power of the Internet, but I can't say that I'm there. I'm old-fashioned and living in a different century. I don't know. I just don't really understand the craze of it.

It seems there is no area in our culture that is not touched, changed, even swallowed by the Internet. It's both medium and message, mass and personal, social and solitary.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

The digital explosion has been so explosive.

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

I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all.

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

Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

I look at my son and his relationship to technology, and I think back to when I was six and how wildly different the world is in that regard. I see him using an iPhone and all this stuff, and then I think back to when I was six. We didn't even have computers in our houses at all yet. This is a huge gap between our experiences as children.

There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture.

People who say that the Internet is the bubble are incredibly misguided.

Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.

I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did.

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

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. This revolution has produced the most powerful and diverse spur to innovation of any in modern times.

Government is too slow to keep up with the digital environment.

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

Much of the world is witnessing a wave of technological transformation that is on the scale of the industrial revolution, but happening at a digital pace. The only thing that isn’t coming at us faster and faster is the ability of governance worldwide to respond.

Technology is something you have to embrace because technology is part of our generation. Digital natives, for instance, are people who grew up in a world that always had the Internet and who always had smartphones. Millennials aren't too far behind: my generation of people, who were in the mix of the Internet when it first came out.

The Internet has heralded a revolution in our society. It has transformed the way we do business, entertain, communicate, and travel. In many ways, the change has been positive. The web has brought new freedoms, spurred economic growth, and extended the boundaries of knowledge.

I lived a significant portion of my life before the Internet and smart phones.