Thomas Friedman Quotes

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.

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

The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.

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

I believe, 50 years from now, when you write history, one technology that would have changed human civilization is going to be the mobile Internet.

We have something very powerful in our hands with the Internet, and we still don't really understand fully its power.

Advances in technology and the Internet have dramatically changed the way we communicate, live, and work.

I'd been on the Internet since the 1970s when it was just for nerds. I started saying, 'Who would benefit from this?' I started imagining a world where young people could have their own email address, back in the days of family AOL accounts.

It is the Internet that changes: the Internet is not just a language; it modifies relationships, the way we look at the world.

Our lives are slowly but surely becoming connected to each other.

The widespread adoption of broadband and the continued advances in personal computing technology are finally making it possible for the collective creation of an online world on a realistic scale.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

Humankind is getting more and more connected.

Just as the PC bled back into industrial economy, I think the Internet is going to bleed back into our overall economy and have a transformative effect on major sectors that we don't yet foresee.

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

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

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

The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology.

I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.

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.

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.

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.

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

The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change.