Ai Weiwei Quotes

The Internet opens a lot of doors to those who are passionate.

Harry Potter isn’t real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I real if you can see me and hear me, but only through the internet? Are you real if I can read your comment but I don’t know who you are or what your name is or where you’re from or what you look like or how old you are? I know all of those things about Harry Potter. Maybe Harry Potter’s real and you’re not.

The Internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It's fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don't care to hear it.

Bizarrely, I actually feel safer the older I get, like people will expect less from me, and I can become more and more invisible, yet more and more eccentric.

The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.

I am sure innovation will blossom around the world, given that the Internet and mobile platforms enable innovators anywhere in the world to reach a global market with ease.

Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others.

Vivendi will be one of the very few top communications groups of the Internet age. We will have customers all over the globe, providing services through all kinds of technology.

The Internet has empowered us. It has empowered you, it has empowered me, and it has empowered some other guys as well.

Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.

What the Internet is great at is building networks.

Psychologists call this the online disinhibition effect, in which factors like anonymity, invisibility, a lack of authority, and not communicating in real time strip away the mores society spent millennia building. and its sweeping from our smartphones into every aspect of our lives.

The internet is the realm of the coward. These are all people who are all sound and no fury.

The open network is like the open society- crime thrives, but so does creativity.

Because we know so much more, immediately, about what’s going on all over the world, there is less room to hide.

With the Internet, you hear voices that you never knew were out there.

The Internet is unpoliceable essentially.

With the Internet, information is knowledge and knowledge is freedom.

We’re going to use the Internet to keep up with our friends and let them know what we are doing. They’re going to use it to decide what kind of government they’re going to have.

The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.

The idea that you can be totally anonymous in the digital age is increasingly hard to execute.

The nice thing about being on the Internet is that you're not as recognisable as someone that's been on TV.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

Google serves all of humanity with information within milliseconds.