International Connectivity Quotes

Today, no country can ever truly cut itself off from the global media or from external sources of information. Trends that start in one corner of the world are rapidly replicated thousands of miles away.

I want to make Seoul the front line of the new South Korea. Seoul is sleeping, and I want to wake it up.

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.

You can't be too far away from your BlackBerry because if there's a development anywhere around the world, it impacts the White House.

The advantage of doing away with words is that you can reach out to any part of the world.

Geographically, we are at the periphery of Europe, but I don't see Ireland in that way. The way I see us is as an island at the center of the world.

The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe.

I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.

Thanks to the competence, love of God, our country's security and stability, endowed wealth, integrated infrastructure and quality services, the U.A.E. turned into the world's renowned destination for tourism, investment and business management: the interface of choice for hosting major cultural events, artistic and sports, in the world.

Historically, Hong Kong has served as an important bridge between China and the world. Our freedoms, stability and the rule of law have been the reasons for our success.

Let us combine 'Look East' with 'Link West' & with our global vision, we can provide a new platform for our economic structure.

I think people's minds are going to have to assimilate in the sense that all the world is international now. The whole world has gone global. I think cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles are the models of our future.

When you work at Google and tell these engineers that their skill set is relevant to somebody in Iran who doesn't have access to information in their country or the rest of the world, it really inspires them to want to do something about it. There is a genuine altruism that exists at this company, and that's why I'm here and not anywhere else.

Once you start looking into the infrastructure, it becomes obvious very quickly that 99 percent of the world's information goes through little tubes under the ocean. Those are very juicy targets for someone who wants to surveil the world.

Dubai's world class physical infrastructure has already established it as a major player in terms of trade, tourism and as the leading conference and exhibition venue in this part of the world.

London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.

I still don't understand why we need a gigantic airport sprawled across South East England. What does it gain us, compared with the misery of noise, pollution and congestion it causes in our cramped country? Would it really be so bad if we had to take a train to Paris or Amsterdam to fly to the U.S.A.?

Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.

It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.

You have to remember the way the internet works, when you communicate with the server, it's very likely not in your country. It's somewhere else in the world.