J. C. R. Licklider Quotes

When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.

Think of Slide as a giant media network for people to transmit information. The content that's in there now has been provided by users - it's whatever they want it to be.

Email cannot die in the near future because of its universal acceptance.

You can transmit a thousand times more information.

The Internet is an almost miraculous way of getting information, of finding and organizing with each other, both minutely and globally. A million times better than the phone and the mimeograph! Also much better than TV, which is one-way and passive.

I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.

I was really excited by the idea that people were sharing information now and discovering information in a totally new way on the Internet via Twitter and Facebook, yet that experience was pretty clunk and just lots of bit.ly links.

I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.

Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from music to games and videos. Yet almost all of our online actions still begin and end with writing: text messages, status updates, typed search queries, comments and responses, screens packed with verbal exchanges and, underpinning it all, countless billions of words.

A communication highway without content is inconceivable.

Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.

If instantaneity is what we want, television cannot compete with cyberspace.

What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.

With the evolution of social media that includes blogging, Facebook, and Twitter, who and how information is delivered has changed tremendously. The landscape for news is a different place, and people have to accept that.

The Internet enables us to share the ideas we have without having to create another hierarchy.

I believe that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact.

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

The long-term value proposition for cellphone companies isn't just voice conversation - it's transfer of data.

With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.

The Internet provides the campaign with an unbiased filter to get its information out.

Private communication systems have been around since the beginning of human culture.

The beauty of the Internet is that anybody can be a broadcaster now.