“The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective.” WayFirstsSchoolTechnologyStudentsInternetEasierCostBenefitsPressesAnalysisPrintingGreat EducationPrinting PressCost Benefit Analysis Author:John Katzman
“The Internet rewards scale; by trading higher up-front costs for lower marginal cost, market leaders can invest in better technology and service. As a result, there is nothing online that is both great in quality and small in scale. Amazon wasn't originally a better bookstore than the small shops we mourn, but it is now.” ResultsQualityLeaderTechnologyFrontsInternetHigherCostRewardsScalesShopsOnlineTradingMournAmazonBookstoresMarket Leaders Author:John Katzman
“I'm the most underrated, most hated, greatest of all time. I constantly have people who quit their jobs just to go on the internet and try to stop me at any and all costs. People flag my videos thousands of times.” PeopleTryingJobsGoes OnInternetCostQuittingVideoAll TimeHatedFlagsUnderrated Author:Riff Raff
“The Internet will not become a money machine until the banking industry figures out how to transfer money for free so you can charge USD 0.005 (half a cent) for some simple service like, say, reading a newspaper article you have searched for. With today's payment system, the cost of the transfer of the funds completely dwarf the cost of the service paid for. ... This situation, however, is what acutely prevents the Internet from taking off as a network for paid services.” TodayReadingSimpleHalfSituationFiguresIndustryInternetCostMachinesPaidNewspapersFundArticlesCentsBankingPaymentTransfersDwarfsDwarves Author:Erik Naggum
“On the Internet, there are an unlimited number of competitors. Anybody with a Flip camera is your competition. What makes it even worse is that YouTube is willing to subsidize the cost of your bandwidth. So anybody can create and distribute for free basically, but the real cost is marketing. And that's always the big cost - how do you stand out and what's the cost of standing out? And there's no limit to that cost.” RealBigsNumbersWillingInternetCostLimitsStandingCamerasCompetitionMarketingUnlimitedStanding OutCompetitorsYoutubeFlipBandwidth Author:Mark Cuban
“One of the myths about the Internet of Things is that companies have all the data they need, but their real challenge is making sense of it. In reality, the cost of collecting some kinds of data remains too high, the quality of the data isn't always good enough, and it remains difficult to integrate multiple data sources.” NeedsKindRealEnoughRealityDifficultChallengesQualityCompanySourceInternetCostRemainsMythDataMake SenseGood EnoughMultipleCollectingIntegrating Author:Chris Murphy
“Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole new way to cut costs for technical infrastructure, and offers big computer companies a potentially giant market for hardware and services.” WayWholeBigsIndividualCompanyCuttingInternetCostOffersComputerCloudsAccessDataGiantsApplicationNew WaysInfrastructureComputingHardwareCloud Computing Author:Jamais Cascio
“It's a very simple example to show that if you miss one step in a process in can cost you an enormous amount of time and money to fix. With a checklist, you can write it down and give it some someone else for them to do successfully. Checklists require discipline and organization, which is something internet marketers have to master.” IfsGivingWritingShowsProcessSimpleStepsMissingExampleMastersAmountInternetDisciplineCostOrganizationDown AndEnormousMarketersTime And MoneyChecklists Author:Brian Tracy
“Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.” CareStupidIndustryInternetCostEntrepreneurEdgesHealth CareBluntAuto IndustryHealth Care Costs Author:Tom Allen
“Computer chips will cost about a penny. That's the cost of scrap paper. The Internet will be basically for free and it will be inside our contact lens. When we blink, we will go online. When we see somebody that we don't recognize, our contact lens will identify who they are, print out their biography in your contact lens and translate, if they're speaking Chinese, into English with subtitles as they speak.” IfsSpeakInternetCostPaperComputerContactChineseOnlinePrintTranslateBiographiesLensesChipsPenniesScrapBlinkSubtitlesContact Lenses Author:Michio Kaku
“If you are dealing with life from a low-level sensibility, the Internet can be a tool for manifesting that. But if you're dealing with life from the highest sensibility, it can also be your tool for manifesting that. The simple reason is that it doesn't cost money.” IfsReasonSimpleLevelsInternetCostHighestLowsToolsManifestSensibilityLow LevelDealing With Life Author:Marianne Williamson
“Can we imagine the United States without electricity? No, that would be pretty hard. Likewise, we can't really imagine being without an open Internet. The cost would be so grave, so serious.” HardStatesWould BeUnitedUnited StatesImagineSeriousInternetCostGravesElectricity Author:Alexis Ohanian
“The reality is that the "gayborhoods" are going away. It's because of many factors, including the internet and increased acceptance, but mostly it's the cost of housing.” RealityAcceptanceInternetCostIncludingFactorsGoing AwayHousing Author:Cleve Jones
“Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters - all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing.” NextEnergyInterestTechnologyGenerationsInternetCostLowsRadioConnectedTinyControlledItemsNext GenerationFrequencyIdentificationEmbeddedComputingServerSensors Author:David Petraeus
“Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.” KnowsWorldTermThis WorldInternetCostGoodnessPhotographyAwfulModestMiceGraciousApesOverheadPunching Book:Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001 Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001
“On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big.” TwoHardBigsCompanyInternetCostLowsSizeScalesMediumsFixedVariablesFinancing Author:Jeff Bezos
“Newspapers are technologically obsolete. In the days of instant electronic communications, its crazy to have to print these newspapers at a central plant and deliver them by truck. They're the biggest problem with our solid-waste disposal. And the news you get is a day old. You can get it off the Internet instantaneously for a fraction of the cost.” ProblemCrazyCommunicationInternetCostWasteNewsPlantNewspapersInstantPrintTruckFractionsObsoleteOld YouElectronic CommunicationSolid WasteWaste Disposal Author:Ted Turner
“To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary "surfing" and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention by appealing to our base instincts.” AttentionMillionsWorryClearInternetCostPagesImpactInstinctDiscourseSurfingAttention SpanSedentaryWeb Page Author:Andrew Weil