Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes

Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity.

Information has become the fundamental element of modern life.

We live in a dynamic time, where the rate of change and the rate of innovation are very high. It’s not equal in all segments or sectors of the economy, but we are seeing a lot of innovation in certain sectors, and I expect that to continue.

In the digital world of today, one can say almost nothing is local.

The spread of information technology and the long-term decline in the cost of computing power have created opportunities that simply did not exist before. Airbnb, for example, could not have existed before the Internet.

Before I came to Silicon Valley I was in Beijing, China and I was twenty-seven. When I saw the Internet, I immediately realized that it was going to change everything.

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.

With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired-the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later.

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.

Humankind is getting more and more connected.

There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use in this world.

TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.

We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.

In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

If anyone can make anything, anywhere. It fundamentally changes the meaning of business.

Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.

We're in a 21st century, transparent and connected world.

The Web 2.0 world is defined by new ways of understanding ourselves, of creating value in our culture, of running companies, and of working together.

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.

The Internet has become an integral part of everyday life precisely because it has been an open-to-all land of opportunity where entrepreneurs, thinkers and innovators are free to try, fail and then try again.

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

Isolation is no longer possible or desirable.