John Collison Quotes

Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded.

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are - in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city - you can get high speed broadband access.

The combination of cheaper and more widespread broadband and increased mobile usage is turning us all into independent viewers.

There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.

By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.

When it broke out in the mid 1990s, the web was society's first at-scale digital artifact. It spread in orders of ten, first thousands, then millions, then hundreds of millions of pages - and on it went, to the billions it now encompasses.

We didn't know the importance of home computers before the Internet. We had them mostly for fun, then the Internet came along and was enabled by all the PCs out there.

I had had a lot of experience in bringing the Internet to Australia, and I saw that knowledge in the hands of people achieves reform.

The Internet is one of the most revolutionary technologies the world has ever known. It has given us an entire universe of information in our pockets.

I think technology can change every country regardless of political party.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

The Internet isn't just itself a revolution - it sometimes starts them, too.

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.

I believe that the Internet is the information highway. I'm religious about this. I don't think it's cable television.

I think the Internet is a huge positive.

Since the iPhone, the most transformative products have not been gadgets but services. Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat have changed lives, but they didn't launch to massive fanfare.

To create a truly digital Europe will require a foundation of high-speed, high-quality broadband, both wired and wireless.

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.

The Internet and digital technologies can and will boost economic, social, and political development, including by vastly expanding the capacity of individuals to enjoy their right to freedom of speech and expression, which is key to empowering human rights.

The Internet never ceases to impress me.

I don't think I had a role model. I just was very inspired by an article which I read in Forbes magazine around the information superhighway and the Arpanet and stuff like that. To me, that intuitively made sense, and when I decided to come to the U.S., I knew exactly what I wanted to go and write about.

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.

Access to reliable Internet is a necessity, whether it's for school, work, or staying connected with family and friends.