Mike Leavitt Quotes

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

The world moves fast. Business moves fast. Digital media moves extremely fast. It is far too easy to allow ourselves to be constantly blown from one trend to the next.

Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.

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.

We like to think of the Internet as a border-busting technology.

I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.

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

We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.

The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.

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.

The Internet is the dynamic engine that is driving our economy today and we must keep that open.

The United States is running a 21st century government under 1940s rules.

Just don’t bet against the Internet.

A world in which we can fully experience the benefits that a connected society brings remains out of reach. Vested interests all too often feel threatened by the modern world, and they are holding Scotland back. We want to change that.

The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.

We will leverage technology to collaborate with the government in its e-governance initiatives.

I think the Internet is a huge positive.

It would be ridiculous to ignore the speed and possibilities of the digital landscape.

The Internet, arguably the fastest world-changing invention since the Gutenberg printing press, has become the core of our social and business lives.

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.

No longer are technology and cyber issues confined to tech geeks in some backroom. In the digital age, IT issues are front and center. They are central to what government does and how it does it.

The digital economy is impacting us in a big way.