Sue Gardner Quotes

I love Twitter, you know? I try to read everything I can on Twitter. You get so much nice feedback about stuff, you know you just put out a sentence and everybody laughs or everybody's just sending something back. It's amazing. Same with Facebook, you know? I'm a lot on Facebook and it's just - it's just amazing. And YouTube, of course, as well.

I don't know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011.

Given that my title at Google is Chief Internet Evangelist, I feel like there is this great challenge before me because we have three billion users, and there are seven billion people in the world.

It's amazing how directly you can connect with people via social media.

I do Facebook, but I only have my friends and family on it, and they always laugh at me for how little I post. I don't know how to upload photos, so I never add pictures.

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.

Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with.

If multi-stakeholder Internet governance is to survive an endless series of challenges, its champions must commit to serving the interests and protecting the rights of all Internet users around the world, particularly those in developing countries where Internet use is growing fastest.

Ordinary Chinese are also getting unprecedented access to information. More than half a billion Chinese now use the Internet.

I find the Internet to be the most wonderful thing there is. It connects people. Everyone can have input.

Social media affords me an opportunity to interact with fans on a daily basis, not just for a few seconds apiece at a science-fiction convention.

There are a lot of people in D.C. who have never been on Twitter or Facebook and don't get what's happening.

The Web is not a prize to be won, and Mr. Ballmer's attitude is deplorable in the light of what the Web means to the world, to users, to designers and developers, and - to put it into Microsoft parlance - customers.

I think what's been really awesome about the Internet is the ability to reach people from so many different walks of life and stages in their life.

More and more of the world's population is gaining access to the same kind of computing power and connectivity that has transformed daily life for developed nations.

While the Internet is important for us, India is also necessary for the Internet with its 1.2 billion population.

Having a Facebook and Twitter profile allows me to keep more in touch with people, particularly young South Africans and those who are part of the online community. I was amazed that anyone might be interested in what I do and who I meet. Now I know what people will be interested in.

I've used Twitter now and again to try to figure something out; it's an amazing resource. But I think you have to use it judiciously: it's a self-selected group, so it's important not to start thinking of it as the whole world.

I got Twitter like two months ago, checked it out a bit more, and I concluded the only thing Twitter I'm interested in following is Nick Stoller.

In the black-and-white world of a girl in her late teens, I thought of things like Internet etiquette as obvious, rule-bound institutions. Facebook was Facebook, texts were texts, emails were emails, chats were chats, webcamming was webcamming, phone calls were phone calls.

A free and open Internet is crucial for innovation and the exchange of information and ideas. It allows grassroots communities to organize and mobilize against injustice across our nation and the globe. It's good for business, consumers, and our entire economy.

I have nothing against the Internet meeting places, as long as people use them intelligently.

The process for finding, creating, and consuming information has fundamentally changed with the advent of the web and the rise of blogging.

I'm too old to understand Snapchat.

As the world grows and technology grows, it's getting harder to communicate and for kids to socialize.