Balance Quote by John W. Thompson

I'm well aware that the Internet is global and can't be wholly affected by any one country. But the United States has outsized influence.

— Walt Mossberg

I think the governments need to encourage internet companies and convince them that they can be extremely profitable without necessarily spiraling out of control.…

— Ramesh Srinivasan

The Internet is a global resource that does not belong to any one nation or alliance. It has contributed to amazing economic growth, collaboration,…

— Dmitri Alperovitch

The Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine…

— Michael Nesmith

For society, the Internet is wonderful, but for capitalists, it will be a net negative. It will increase efficiency, but lots of things increase…

— Charlie Munger

When the Internet first appeared, this heated debate developed among economists. One side said the Internet will make it easier for companies to price-discriminate,…

— Austan Goolsbee

The Internet was invented in an age when our entire approach to regulation has been extremely lax, and so you'd think, 'OK, there might…

— Franklin Foer

We see this in legislations such as SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, IPRED, IPRED2, TPP, TRIPS, just to name a few. All of these legislations have…

— Peter Sunde

The real issue is control. The Internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating a seamless global economic…

— John Perry Barlow

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for…

— Milton Friedman

The Web took off in all its glory because it was a royalty-free infrastructure . . . When I invented the Web, I didn't…

— Tim Berners-Lee

The internet has to be protected from intrusive monitoring or else the medium upon which we all rely for the basis of our economy…

— Edward Snowden