Barry Diller Quotes

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.

We have recently moved into an era when... everybody can share an inconceivably enormous amount of information just by stroking a few keys on a terminal.

I'm astonished at the speed of social media as it can get things done really fast.

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.

Through historical accident, we've ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any time.

The Internet is one of the biggest advances ever in our world.

Twitter provides a platform that allows anyone on the planet - from a political activist in the Middle East to an intemperate golfer in the White House - to broadcast his or her thoughts.

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

The greatest miracle of the Internet is that it exists - the second greatest is that it persists.

I love the efficiency of the Internet. If I come across something that I want to share right away, I can do it.

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.

I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was.

The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.

Smartphones are so fabulous in so many ways that it seems daft to be nostalgic about the days when an image did not go round the world in a nanosecond.

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.

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.

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.

E-mails, phone calls, Web sites, videos. They're still all letters, basically, and they've come to outnumber old-fashioned conversations. They are the conversation now.

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.

Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.

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.