With the appearance of communications networks and…

Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to…

— Marvin Minsky

And then computers got to a point where you could just record directly into them. So when that happened, funny enough, I thought, Right,…

— Thom Yorke

If there's one thing that the Web has changed about modern communication, it's that we've at long last done away with the archaic idea…

— Lore Sjoberg

“Prior to the web, organizations had only two significant choices to attract attention: buy expensive advertising or get third-party ink from the media. But…

— Ann Handley

The web has changed the way we organise information in a very clear way: from the boundaried, solid format of books and newspapers to…

— Katharine Viner

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

— Jim Clark

It's often taken for granted that the most dominant tech companies control the world's most important technology and communications platforms. Instead, the truth is…

— Borje Ekholm

The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the…

— Robin Hayes

“The first duty of the command and control system is to survive,” Baran argued, proposing a distributed network with hundreds or thousands of separate…

— Eric Schlosser

In a sense, communications networks can be defined entirely by who has cryptographic keys, and I think a lot of networks will work that…

— Whitfield Diffie

“And so the moment we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold into a library, we've changed their lives forever, and for…

— Barack Obama

If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something that actually…

— Mary Ellen Mark

We have all had a time in our life when we needed somebody to believe in us, or we finally had someone who believed…

— Hilary Swank

“The fact of Barack Obama, of Michelle Obama, changed our lives. Their very existence opened a market. It is important to say this, to…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“The life changing seems always bracketed by the mundane. The quotidian wrapped around the profound, like plain brown paper concealing the emotional version of…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber