James L. Dolan Quotes

Bell Labs was an astonishing place for many decades, though it fell on somewhat hard times during the telecom meltdown some years ago, as its corporate owner had to cope with shrinking markets.

I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.

In 1984 nobody knew what cable was going to be. It was there, but you didn't know where it was going.

My father worked for Bell Labs. Hence, I knew very much about the place. I knew it because also he was involved with telephony.

Rules designed for the Ma Bell monopoly during the era of rotary phones were a poor fit for the greatest innovation of our time, the Internet.

Cable and satellite businesses are competing against fixed-line telephone companies and wireless companies.

The bottom line is this: I want America to be at the forefront of innovation in the broadcast sector, the wireless sector, and every other sector of the communications industry.

Cable is a dynamic and highly innovative industry, providing cutting edge services and content that Americans love. The broadband platform the industry has deployed is a critical part of the infrastructure needed to realize our national ambition to be a great nation in the Information Age.

It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.

Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.

I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.

Those who are mastering more and more the communications revolution, those who realize that there are no borders in the world, are the ones who are going to leap ahead.

I've been fortunate to have had the opportunity to be at the forefront of the digital media revolution.

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.

I think cable has been under-appreciated for its contribution to society.

I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages.

I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company.

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

Telephone and cable monopolies were positioning themselves to compete with one another.

I started working in the mid-to-late Seventies, when television was not what it is now.

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