Manmohan Singh Quotes

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

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

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

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

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.

This is a very different world. Much of it is new. What has happened is that information technology has politicized the world…It’s a world where most of the big problems spill over national boundaries.

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

When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly permitted to have handheld devices. I mean, so you're thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can't expect people to change if I don't try to model it and lead it.

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at - indeed, great at.

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

When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices.

Geographic boundaries really begin to disappear with the Internet.

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

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.

Greater technological connectivity makes the world wider, and the walls of isolation - thinner.

Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.

We have collapsed distances, taken down walls, and spread information.

The global economy and its technologies can be hugely liberating for those in a position to take advantage of them.

Police states cannot endure under the advance of the computer because it increases the power of the people far faster than the powers of surveillance.

If formerly restrictive regimes can be persuaded to see the free flow of information not as a threat to the power of sovereign states, but as the creator of a viable economic infrastructure and a population incentivised to take advantage of the new economy, the next century will be promising indeed.