George Osborne Quotes

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.

The Internet is one of the biggest advances ever in our world.

The first conversation I ever had about the Internet was in 1993 with Robert Wright, who was then a colleague at the 'New Republic.'

The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.

The landscape of the Net has changed; that cyberfrontier of the past has become a teeming city of people, transactions, and businesses.

In the early '90s, well under 5 percent of the global population was online.

The Internet is this whole new world that allows everyone to communicate and exchange information and be a perfect marketplace and just accelerate everybody's lives. So, for me, the Internet was the greatest invention of mankind so far.

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

The government invented the Internet.

We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

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

So much of the world is digital.

The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.

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.

In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded knowledge. The Internet gives us access, not just to knowledge, but to the intelligence contained in people's crania, access to the intelligence of people on a global basis.

People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not going to change the way we think, and it's not going to change the way we feel.

Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

The notion of the Internet as a force of political and social revolution is not a new one. As far back as the early 1990s, in the early days of the World Wide Web, there were technologists and writers arguing forcefully that the Internet was destined to become the most important tool for cultural change in human history.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

My point is, no one can stop the Internet. No one can stop that march. It doesn't mean that it's going to be smooth, though.

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

The world is changing, and the Internet is about to become the next broadcast network.