Bill Clinton Quotes

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

Globalization cannot take shape without the speed of light.

By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.' It changed the way we think about global business, competitiveness and the implication for far-flung economies, governments, education and more.

The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at - indeed, great at.

Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.

The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global economic competitiveness going forward.

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

We're in a 21st century, transparent and connected world.

The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.

In a world being transformed by technology, good science is vital to good diplomacy.

We have collapsed distances, taken down walls, and spread information.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

As the world of chips and glass fibers and wireless waves goes, so goes the rest of the world

Please, join the modern world.

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

I think technology can change every country regardless of political party.

In a modern and innovative society, where advancements are plentiful and communication is instantaneous, science and technology are a part of everyday life.

When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly permitted to have handheld devices. I mean, so you're thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can't expect people to change if I don't try to model it and lead it.

You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.

One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.

When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.