Thomas Pynchon Quotes

Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.

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

Living in the age of information and technology, everything gets out so easy and so, so quickly.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn't have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.

In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded knowledge. The Internet gives us access, not just to knowledge, but to the intelligence contained in people's crania, access to the intelligence of people on a global basis.

But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

The Internet has turned the world into one gigantic linked community, capable of instantly sharing vast amounts of incorrect information.

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.

There's so much information accessible to everyone now because the Internet is so powerful; social media is so powerful.

When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.

Today we all are enjoying the fruits of the digital era. Millions of sources of information coming at us at lightning fast speed. That technology has also democratized the gathering and dissemination of news, allowing for 'citizen journalists' to make their mark, even usurping the role of mainstream news organizations at times.

Everything is so tech now; everyone is so connected that way.

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

Well, when we made 'Tron' there was no internet, no cellphones.

The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree.

The speed with which WikiLeaks went from niche interest to global prominence was a real-time example of the revolutionizing power of the digital age in which information can spread instantly across the globe through networked individuals.

With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.

It's a whole new world out here. The online world is like a blackboard on which, when you write, the whole world can see - and I'm thrilled about this development. I want to make full use of it.

My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

I don't know why, but I'm continually amazed to think that two and a half billion of us around the world are connected to each other through the Internet and that at any point in time more than 30 percent of the world's population can go online to learn, to create and to share.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.