Evgeny Morozov Quotes

We are now living in a completely digitalized world and a completely globalized world, so we have to find some new mechanisms and values to deal with this post-digitalized and post-globalized world.

The Web is not a prize to be won, and Mr. Ballmer's attitude is deplorable in the light of what the Web means to the world, to users, to designers and developers, and - to put it into Microsoft parlance - customers.

The Internet has introduced an enormously accessible and egalitarian platform for creating, sharing and obtaining information on a global scale. As a result, we have new ways to allow people to exercise their human and civil rights.

As a society, we haven't spent as much time building the citizen Internet.

The Internet is by the people, for the people.

Saving the Internet requires a greater sense of shared ownership and fewer bystanders accepting whatever today's Internet has to offer.

Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at me like I'm crazy because every young person we know in the world is never without media, ever.

Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign.

That's what's good about the digital revolution is it makes information asymmetry much harder to maintain.

In addition to all the good things it's done, the Internet has empowered an awful lot of people who would have been best off disempowered, including quite a few bloggers on both sides.

Technology is something you have to embrace because technology is part of our generation. Digital natives, for instance, are people who grew up in a world that always had the Internet and who always had smartphones. Millennials aren't too far behind: my generation of people, who were in the mix of the Internet when it first came out.

If the internet has taught me anything it is that people are either heroes or they belong in the bin.

I think the whole world has been able to utilize the Internet. I feel like you don't have to be from a certain soil.

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

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.

I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

I happen to be one of the people who believe that the Internet is a force of good, and I'm very optimistic about it.

As users of the Internet, we all have a role to play in defining what we want it to be.

It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.

When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.

The Internet is an open sewer of unfiltered, untreated information. The Internet can make you smarter, faster than anything else in the world. It can also make you dumber faster.

The more complex our world becomes, the more we rely on that electronic window to help us process it all. And the greater the responsibility we must shoulder to see that it is used as fairly as it is fearlessly.

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

Ordinary Chinese are also getting unprecedented access to information. More than half a billion Chinese now use the Internet.

Computer literacy is a fundamental civil right.