Jared Polis Quotes

One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.

Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace.

There are things in life that don't come to me naturally, and social media and the Internet and all those things are some of them, somewhere between taxes and cooking!

As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are.

I don't know why, but I'm continually amazed to think that two and a half billion of us around the world are connected to each other through the Internet and that at any point in time more than 30 percent of the world's population can go online to learn, to create and to share.

Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.

Growing up, I wish that I'd had the supplies and laptops and all the new technology that's out right now.

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.

If we're the country that makes Amazon and Facebook and Twitter, why can't the federal government have websites and digital services that are awesome?

A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.

I've turned into a technological wizard. I can send emails now, which for me is unbelievable. They don't make any sense, but I can send them. I call it e-mithering.

Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

We're in an inflection point where it's cheaper to learn to read on a tablet computer than it is to learn to read on paper. And that being the case, it's only a matter of time before every 6-year-old kid has a tablet computer, and we know for a fact, 3- to 4-year-old kids are using tablets and iPads, and 75 and 80 year olds are using them.

Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.

The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.

The Internet is a tool, a technology, and we like to say that it has all of these properties, but really, it's just a place where our writing is.

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

I've never sent an email in my life. My kids laugh. I often hand the phone to them and say, 'Can you text this message to somebody.' I don't even have a computer on my desk.

I'm not even worried about the Internet; that ain't even my thing. I'm not even an Internet guy. You rarely even see me into that.

Never use technology for technology's sake.

We tend to look at computers and the Internet as items of nicety. In the 21st century, they will be items of necessity.

The most dramatic effect of digital libraries will not be on us, the well-booked, but on the billions of people worldwide who are underserved by ordinary paper books.

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

I've been, like, the mom of Google.