"There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind"
- Thomas Friedman
About this Quote
This quote by Thomas Friedman is referring to the distinction between the technological advances of the past and the present. He is stating that the difference between having the ability to make long distance call less expensive on the Internet and having access to all of Google in your pocket is so excellent that it is nearly like a various sort of technology. This is since the Internet and the capability to gain access to Google on a PDA is far more sophisticated than the technology of the past. This quote is emphasizing the value of technology and how it has actually altered the world and how we connect with it. It is likewise highlighting the value of staying up to date with the current technology and how it can make life easier and more effective.
"My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod"
"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless"
"The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website"
"Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better"
"It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that"
"The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media"
"It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing"
