Aspect Quote by David Souter

Kofi Annan described World Summit on the Information Society as the first summit to deal primarily with an opportunity. The range of issues and…

— David Souter

“I can't think anyone really believes that today's so-called 'information society' is just about information. Everyone knows it's about something else, way down.”

— David Foster Wallace

Summits [World Summit on the Information Society] are meant to help governments reach a global consensus on major issues which has proved elusive in…

— David Souter

“This terror of silence with nothing diverting to do. I can’t think anyone really believes that today’s so-called ‘information society’ is just about information.…

— David Foster Wallace

We are having Internet Governance discussions and meetings and a very large number of people are discussing the future of the Internet who have…

— Steve Crocker

A global society is coming into being, a global society that is made out of information that was not intended to be ours, but…

— Terence McKenna

The Internet is not a thing, a place, a single technology, or a mode of governance. It is an agreement.

— John Gage

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

— Bill Gates

Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives.…

— John Poindexter

Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate…

— Carly Fiorina

The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged.

— Bill Gates

The reality, as the battlefield taught us, is that a 20th-century organizational system is simply insufficient for the speed of the information age.

— Chris Fussell