Jodie Foster Quotes

The Internet creates transparency, creates a change of mentality, brings people together.

The Internet is the most effective instrument we have for globalization.

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we're moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

What Facebook stands for in the world is giving people a voice and spreading ideas and rationalism.

Reading the text of my blog itself is not really the interesting part. The exciting part is how the Internet allows me to be the eyes and ears for the people sending me postings from Africa.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.

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

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.

Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will spread, and it will change those societies in very dramatic ways.

The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation.

We're living in an age where we should be collaborating. Because it's the Internet now. It's hard to say who owns what.

This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it's easy to establish a dialogue.

For all its deranging effects, I am always grateful to Twitter for the interesting ideas it surfaces.

The Internet is the vehicle we're driving to share our visuals, outrage, and ideas around the world.

I think social media is a great place to share ideas and to connect with other people.

At Facebook we feel a lot of affinity not just for this community but for any community that is trying to do what Davos is trying to do, which is to share information. And Davos is doing it in a particular way - I think the Facebook approach is obviously more broad-based, we're trying to include everyone in the world. But the goal is the same: bring people together, to share information and make the world more connected, and have people have a deeper understanding of themselves, others, the communities of which they want to be a part and can be a part.

Technology to me does two things: it increases the velocity of communication and increases the number of people who can participate. That's it. That's really all technology for our entire history has ever done.

A lot of association on the internet is highly constructive. There are people interacting, interchanging ideas, making plans, coordinating activities; take any of the popular movements, a lot of the organization is through the internet. We want to have a demonstration or we want to have a meeting, its done through the internet. I think that's all to the good.

It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking.

I don't believe in saturation. We're thinking and talking worldwide.

Our successes have been so great and so rapid that, within 20 years, we've gotten a third of the world's population online, shrunk our computers to the size of our hands, and connected each to each.

One big promise of the Internet was that it would be a great democratizing force, allowing us to become exposed to new ideas that we might not otherwise encounter in our town, workplace or social circle.

I have been talking about social issues on YouTube for a long time now. I think it's very important in terms of being able to reach people around the world and people who have never been exposed to certain topics or are maybe misinformed about certain things.

I have a little antennae, and even when I'm trying not to be, I'm connected with the bloody zeitgeist.