Peter Singer Quotes

Thanks to our modern era, facts are incredibly easy to come by. A few web searches for your subject matter, and you have all the information you could dream of.

The vision of the Internet as a vast digital wasteland isn't correct. Everything is awesome, and we have more stuff to read than we ever have in history.

The access to information the web provides is both daunting and exciting. Information that was once secreted away in library stacks is now so much more easily available.

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

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.

The world's information is digital. The web, the news, all of that is digital. And now... we have ten million books scanned. That was the last bastion of what was offline; it's now online and accessible.

More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.

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

You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites.

Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.

That's the power of the Internet: you can literally find everything.

The Internet serves as a channel of endless information through which individuals now access the news, employment opportunities, education, entertainment, etc.

The Internet is where we all go to for the first stop of information. It's not the library any more, it's the Internet and if I want to find out about Kate Russell, what do I do? I Google Kate Russell. Simple as that.

The Internet is a whole new world opening up.

There's nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.

The Internet is one of the most revolutionary technologies the world has ever known. It has given us an entire universe of information in our pockets.

It's a fascinating time, I think. I do believe that with all the qualifications I've said - [such as] the uncertain accuracy of the web - nonetheless the access to speeches, documents is unparalleled with the ease of gathering information. If I had had that access when I was an editor or coming up, it would have made my life so much easier. As it was, everything took so much longer.

[The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It's like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There's a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn't really matter

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

Because we know so much more, immediately, about what’s going on all over the world, there is less room to hide.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing

With the profusion of images and the Internet, you can get any truth you want.

The Internet is the single biggest creator of ignorance mankind has ever created, as well as the single biggest eliminator of that ignorance. It’s our ability to filter that eliminates the former and empowers the latter.