Global Network Quotes

When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance.

The Internet is a clear example of how our lives have changed in ways we couldn't have imagined: a distributed information source, which is invisible to everyone, where you can access anything, and it's distributed throughout the whole world. Basically, communication is instantaneous.

In effect, the Internet is a global connection of interconnected computers. It has been described as truly a peer-to-peer system with many distributed nodes and no central point of control architecture.

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer, decentralized form of money, as durable as the Internet itself. Remember, the Internet - or DARPA, as it was originally called - was created as a fail-safe, global network with no 'single point of failure.' If one part goes down, data takes another route, and nothing is lost.

The 9/11 attack itself played out around the world, with planning meetings in Malaysia, operatives taking flight lessons in the United States, coordination by plot leaders based in Hamburg, and money transfers from Dubai - activities overseen by al-Qaeda's senior command from secure bases in Afghanistan.

We are not experts on everything. We are not capable of doing everything by ourselves. There are a bunch of other smarter people around the world.

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.

What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web … Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring.

Airbnb is a company with values around hospitality.

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.

Ripple is focused on enabling a global network of financial institutions to use our software to create what we call the Internet of Value.

I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find.

Bricks and mortar Berlin has become a kind of network across which visitors and residents interact as if on some sort of comfortable global platform.

Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.

The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.

It doesn't do any good to wire the world if we short circuit the soul.

Your parents' al Qaeda was a very different model than the threat we face today.

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

The Internet serves as a channel of endless information through which individuals now access the news, employment opportunities, education, entertainment, etc.

It's pretty challenging in a small country to develop a business school with a world-class reputation because of the problem of attracting a critical mass of top-class researchers.

As a Japanese actor, I really want to work with a lot of actors and actresses in the world and many directors who have many different kinds of talents. I feel like nationally doesn't matter at all.

The Internet's a crazy place to hang out because it's insane to see so many people doing so many creative things all over the map.

Al Qaeda is a racially diverse organization that is well aware of its dependence on a labor pool dominated by Arab Muslim men. It also has an adaptable and fluid counterintelligence mind-set.

People everywhere in the world have Russian connections. There is nothing wrong with having Russian connections as long as you're transparent about it.