Data Transfer Quotes

Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.

When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.

High speed Internet access isn't a nice thing to have, it's a necessary thing to have.

So the bandwidth issue is definitely a big concern of ours.

A communication highway without content is inconceivable.

There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009.

One of my bosses happened to be one of the early architects of some of the ways Internet providers work. He taught me how the cables connect, how the telecom providers work... I learned how to make my own Ethernet cables, all the way up to running a small business.

The last time when I handed over information was in February or March 1949.

In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined.

The Internet is literally a network of networks.

He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue.

You can experience a download, but you can't download an experience.

5G is no longer just a buzzword.

The story of Basinski's 'Disintegration Loops' - tapes that destroyed themselves in the transfer to digital - is a parable (again almost too perfect) for the switch from the fragility of analogue to the infinite replicability of digital.

I'm the Wi-Fi, so I get everybody connected. I'm trying to let the whole world know that I can keep it connected if you get with me, you know what I'm saying?

I played so long ago, I don't think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don't think they knew anything about it.

To get high data transfer rates in communicating information, you would love to use optical fibers. The problem is that light is extremely hard to manipulate. So we make a perfect copy of the information carried by the light. We transfer it to matter - the condensate.

I've often asked myself, how much information can the brain actually hold? There'll probably come a day when you're able to download it; that's what you have to do when the machine's full.

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.

I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.

All this stuff was done via FTP but the web has put a really nice user interface on it.

Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.

When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office.

We covered every major segment of this broadband communications world.