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.
When you're on a scale like we are in 170 countries and hundreds of thousands of people, you have a single point of view.
We have the flexibility to work with any potential merchant partner across the globe.
The Internet is a testament to a connected system that works - it's a global network where any computer can reach another, and easily transfer information across.
The Internet has turned everybody into a global person, whether they know it or not.
The Internet is the most effective instrument we have for globalization.
Video just accesses international information so much more readily.
If you go to Norway, Finland, Russia or Australia, you'll see Xerox or Fuji-Xerox people, not just the name on the door. We have human beings who live and work and serve customers everywhere around the globe.
In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate with fellow human beings on virtually any topic, at any time, and in every nook and cranny on the globe. This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control.
When we talk about Techstars, we think of it as this worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed.
We are building a national and worldwide network of law enforcement excellence - a network that, through cooperation, allows us to meet the challenges we all face.
I get letters constantly from all over the world, telephone calls from America, Brazil, Australia, all over, especially on my birthday. A family? I have a huge international family. That's all I need.
Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.
I am only a footnote, but proud of the footnote I have become. My subsequent work on eliciting principles and developing the theory of interface design, so that many people will be able to do what I did is probably also footnote-worthy. In looking back at this turn-of-the-century period, the rise of a worldwide network will be seen as the most significant part of the computer revolution.
We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.
